On the sexual division of labour, Hatrsock notes yhe dual presence of women both in wage labour and in work in the household. As wage-workers they share the experiences of male workers of productive labour processes, but they also work in the home, outside the wage labour system, under male domination. Here they perform work which is concerned with necessities of survival, bodily and psychological renewal, and the reproductive activities of childbearing and upbringing. Although Hartsock claims that the sexual division of labour is central to the general organization of human social labour, she tend to confine her analysis to Western class societies. She accepts that, even here, there are many differences in the life experiences of individual women. She is also sensitive to the specificity of the experiences of lesbians and women of colour. However, her concern is to identify commonalities in the lives of women that cut across these differences, and to focus on institutionalized practices which might ground a distinctively female or feminist outlook.