Couples Flashcards
What did Ann Oakleys research into women and housework find?
Challenged young and Willmots evidence that 72% of men did housework beyond washing up
Found 15% of husbands had high participation in housework and 25% in childcare showing domestic work still seem as females responsibility
What does parsons say about expressive and instrumental roles
2 roles within marriage that are essential for running of house and wider society
- expressive role: caring, nurturing and engage in primary socialisation of children and household taks
- instrumental role: have career and bring economic stability to family with minimal involvement in childcare
What does willmott and young say about couples
Put forward March of progress view and has been emergence of symmetrical familu where roles of couples are more similar
Men help more with housework/childcare
Couple spend lesuire time together instead of separately
Women go to work
What is duncombe and marsden triple shift?
Did study of 40 white couples who been married for 15 years
- women make emotional efffort and men devalue it
- men prioritised work and didn’t take emotional responsibility at home
- men wanted picture of marriage and domestic but didn’t wanna put in emotional involvement
So women in relationships that work a triple shift
What are the 4 ways the symmetrical family is occurring
Changes in position of women: married women go to work and childcare more shared
Geographical mobility: more couples live away from where they live so reliant on another help
New technology: less work due to new tech so more lessuire time
Higher standard of living: more income can afford to spend on housework and more on leisure
What is morris duel burden
Women have responsibility of unpaid domestic labour and paid work
What does a sociologist argue about household technology
Sclater argues Tech like washing machines and vaccine cleaners advertise making life easier for women
Instead increased burden of chores as have raised standards of cleanliness and so increased time spent on housework
What does Compton and Lyonette say about gender division of Labour?
Cultural/ideological explanation: based mainly on patriarchal norms and values of society made through socialisation
Material/economic explanation: women earn less than men so they go out to work more and women stay at home
What did Gillian dune find about lesbian relationships
Studied lesbian couples with children compared to heterosexual women:
- more likely to describe relationship as equal sharing housework and childcare equally and viewed it positively
- equal importance to both partners careers
This is cause hetro people under pressure to conform to ingrained gender scripts whereas lesbians aren’t linked to these scrips making them more equal
What did Edgell fimd about decision making and couples?
Research on proffeshinal couples and found 3 types of decision making:
- very important decisions: moving house or careers were deceived by husband who brought in income
- important decisions: holidays etc decided by both partners
- Less important decisions: what to eat or clothes to buy, often made by wife
What does personal life perspective sociologists say about couples and money?
Weeks found cohabiting couples pooled income for household spending and kept rest of individual income for personal spending called “co-independence”
Smart found in same sex couples they didn’t attach importance to who controlled finance and didn’t see it as source of inequality in relationship. So same sex couples didn’t enter relationships with gendered, heterosexual meanings to money
What are some statistics about domestic violence?
Women’s aid federation (2014) found it accounted for 1/4 of recorded crime
Coleman and Osborne found 2 women a week are killed by partner or ex-partner
Yearnshire found women suffer average of 35 assaults before filing a report
What does cheal say about domestic violence and police response?
Argues police assume family is private sphere and state shoudlnt intervene and neglect dark side of family
Assume women are free individuals and can leave of own accord when this is not true
However 2017 law allows perpetrators to be prosecuted even if victim withdraws complaint showing progress being made
What does radical feminist say about domestic abuse and who counters that claim?
Firestone says societies founded on patriarchy and marriage is main source of women’s oppression
Domestic violence inevitable in patriarchal society and police and courts dominated by men so cases go bad
However Elliot argues not all men benefit from domestic boom be and many opposed to it and ignore same sec relationship abuse and how social class and substance abuse plays a role in likelihood of being a victim
