Changes In The Family- Does more women in work mean greater equality in the home?

Question 1

Which sociologist believe that more women in work means greater equality in the home?

Answer 1

Man-Yee Kan
Schor and Silver
Gershuney

Question 2

Which sociologist believe that more women in work DOES NOT mean greater equality in the home?

Answer 2

Arber and Ginn
Gregson and Lowe
Dunne
Dunscombe and Marsden
Hardill
Pahl and Vogler

Question 3

Man-Yee Kan

Answer 3

believe that more women in work means greater equality in the home

-found income from employment, age and education affected how much housework women did
-better paid, young, better-educated women did less housework

Question 4

Empirical evidence to support Man-Yee Kan

Answer 4

for every £10000 increase in the women’s income reduces her weekly housework time by 2 hrs

Question 5

Schor and Silver

Answer 5

believe that more women in work means greater equality in the home

-housework has become ‘commercialised’

Question 6

Who argues housework has become commercialised?

Answer 6

Schor and Silver

Question 7

Define what is meant by commercialisation of housework?

Answer 7

-the goods and services that housewives previously had to produce are themsevesnow mass-produced and supplied ny supermarkets

Question 8

Gershuney

Answer 8

believe that more women in work means greater equality in the home

-found that the husbands of working women continued to do less than half the total paid and unpaid work of their partners
HOWEVER
-the ‘dual burden’ of paid and domestic work remained for women
-men did seem to be doing more housework when their wives were in paid work

Question 9

Arber and Ginn

Answer 9

more women in work DOES NOT mean greater equality in the home

-greater equality depends on social class position women are in
- found that m/c women were able to afford a full day of childcare when they went to work
-however
-w/c women cannot and are therefore stuck in vicious-cycle of childcare responsibilities and low-paid, part-time work

Question 10

Gregson and Lowe

Answer 10

more women in work DOES NOT mean greater equality in the home

-did study of the employment of domestic ‘help’
by dual-earner m/c families found that for these couples it was more economical to employ w/c women as nannies and cleaners than for the wife to stay at home
-unlike m/c, most w/c women cannot afford to employ domestic ‘help’ and so have to carry a dual burden of paid and unpaid domestic work

Question 11

Dunne

Answer 11

more women in work DOES NOT mean greater equality in the home

-despite number of working women increasing
-argues that there has been little change in the domestic division of labour
-this is because of deeply ingrained ‘gender script’

Question 12

‘gender scripts’
who created this ?

Answer 12

expectations or norms that set out the different gender roles of men and women in heterosexual couples are expected to play

Dunne

Question 13

Dunscombe and Marsden

Answer 13

more women in work DOES NOT mean greater equality in the home

-identify another element of women’s domestic work = ‘emotion work’
-many women ended up doing triple shifts

Question 14

‘emotion work’
What is meant by this and who suggested this?

Answer 14

Dunne
-many women in Dunne’s study expressed dissatisfaction with their partner’s emotional input into the RS and the family
-most men did not acknowledge that emotion work needs to be done to make the RS work

Question 15

triple shift
What is meant by this and who suggested this?

Answer 15

Dunne
-many women do triple shifts
-having completed their paid employment they not only have to do most of the housework, they also have to do the emotion work

Question 16

Hardill

Answer 16

more women in work DOES NOT mean greater equality in the home

-in her study of 30 dual-career professional couples
-H found that th rimportantdecsions were usually taken either by the man alone or jointly
-and his career normally took priority when decided whether to move house for a new job

Question 17

Pahl and Vogler

Answer 17

-focus on how each partner’s contribution to the family income affects decision-making within the family
-found that ‘pooling’ incomes through e.g joint bank account
-was on the rise and was more common among couple who both work full-time
-HOWEVER they found that men usually made the major financial decision

Question 18

‘pooling’ incomes
What is meant by this and who suggested this?

Answer 18

Pahl and Vogler
- joint bank accounts for example