6F Flashcards
1
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What are segregated conjugal roles?
A
- Where women take on most of the domestic work and men do the paid work
2
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What are joint conjugal roles?
A
- Where women and men share the domestic work
3
Q
What is a triple shift?
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- When women do domestic work, paid work, and emotional work
4
Q
What did Willmott and Young say about the division of labour?
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- The family was symmetrical
- Men and women’s roles in marriage are becoming similar
- Couples share work and leisure time together
5
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Why did Willmott and Young say that the division of labour was becoming symmetrical?
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- Changes in women’s positions
- Geographic mobility
- New tech, labour saving devices
6
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Criticisms of Willmott and Young
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- Ann Oakley: 72% of men only do one chore per week
7
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What did Man Yee Kan find about the division of labour?
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- women still to most of the housework whilst men contribute to non routine domestic work
8
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What did Gershuny find about the impact of women working?
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- Found a gradual increase of dom labour done by men
- Increased when wives started full time employment
9
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What did Braun find about childcare?
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- Only 3/70 families had the father as the main care giver
- Most were background fathers
- They say themselves as breadwinners and women as the careers
10
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What did Volger find out about pooling?
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- It is on the increase and is commune among couples where bother parents work full time
11
Q
What did Dunne say about lesbian households? 6F
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- Childcare was shared
- Housewoek was shared
- One partner worked full time and one worked part time
12
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What did Radical feminists say about domestic violence?
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- It was evidence of patriarchy
- Male dominiance in the police and courts help to explain why they are reluacatnt to effectively deal with domestic violence cases
