Conjugal Roles Flashcards
What is meant by Joint conjugal roles?
Couples share tasks such as housework and childcare
What is meant by Segregated conjugal roles?
Couples have separate roles
What is meant by Symmetrical families
The husband and wifes roles are less separated and more equal
What is meant by domestic division of labour
How the domestic work within a household is divided
What is meant by Triple shift?
Women have 3 jobs:
- paid work
- housework and childcare
- emotional work
What is meant by Dual burden
The combination of workload from paid employment and domestic labour
Anne Oakley (Feminism)
- Housework and childcare is still the wives responsibility
- women still become mothers and housewives
- most experience at time of full time housework
Duncombe and Marsden (Feminism)
- Emotion work
- it is a women who is responsible for emotion work
- they provide security, support and reassurance for their husbands
Young and Wilmott (Functionalism)
- March of progress
- believe the family has become symmetrical
- becoming more equal and fair - benefitting women
Parsons (Functionalism)
- Differences are based on biology
- suggests there are natural roles and the division of labour is beneficial
Reeves (Functionalism criticism)
Claims we are halfway through a revolution in the interactions between gender roles and family life
Gershuny (impact of paid work)
- There is an increase in male domestic labour
- Women working full time leads to more equal domestic labour
- Dual burden/Triple shift
Pahl and Vogler (Resources and Decision making)
- Men tend to benefit from money management
- However pooling is becoming more common than the allowance system
Edgell (Resources and Decision making)
Decision making :
- Very important -> Men
- Important -> Joint
- Less important -> Women
Smart (PLP) (Resources and Decision making)
- Homosexual couples attached no importance to who controlled the money
- found to have a greater freedom
