 Finally, much feminist scholarship has focused on the unequal division of labor between parents within the household and its effect on girls’ life chances, and hence on the state’s role in addressing this gendered division of parenting labor and defining the legal institution of the family (Okin 1989, Card 1996, Schouten 2019; see also  3.5  below). Feminist perspectives appear throughout the discussion below. (See also the entry on  feminist perspectives on the family.)