couples Flashcards
instrumental and expressive roles
parsons argues women ‘naturally’ and biologically suited to nurturing role and men the provider
joint and segregated roles
bott argues segregated roles where women are caregiver and male breadwinner means leisure activities also separate, joint roles where couple share paid and domestic work and also leisure activities
symmetrical family
wilmott and young argue roles are becoming more joint conjugal but still some differences
examples of family becoming more symmetrical
women go out to work, men help with housework and childcare, couples spend leisure time together
eval for symmetrical family
crompton argues division of labour still unequal because women earn 3/4 of what men earn so while women earn less, they will still be expected to do more housework and childcare
what does feminist oakley disagree with symmetrical family?
argues it’s a huge overstatement as men’s help with housework may be tiny, found that men often made breakfast once a week or took the kids to the park on the odd occasion
men’s level of domestic labour according to oakley
found that only 15% of men had a high level of participation in housework and 25% in childcare
what did oakley find about the parts of childcare men were involved in?
only partake in enjoyable part, ‘taking them off’ mother’s hands to lay with them on a sunday but doesn’t get them up for school every morning
what did oakley find most families said bout a fathers role?
‘taking an interest’
why does feminist boulton disagree with the symmetrical family?
argues it’s an exaggerated claim because found that less than 20% of men had a major role in childcare, woman was nearly always responsible for security and well being of child/children
level of men being main carer in home according to braun, vincent and ball
in their study of 70 families, in only three of these was the father the main carer
what did braun, vincent and ball argue was the role of most fathers?
most are background fathers with a ‘provider ideology’
what do warde and hetherington argue about the division of domestic labour?
domestic takes special ally associated with males or females, sex typed as they call it.
findings for sex typed roles according to warde and hetherington
found that wives were 30x more likely to be he last person to have washed up and men 4x more likely to to have washed the car
examples of sex typed roles
women - sewing, washing up, ironing, cooking
men - putting bins out, building furniture, painting
what does gershuny argue about the impact of paid work on domestic labour?
found that women who do paid work do less work within the home and couples whose parents had more equal roles in domestic tasks also then share domestic tasks more
findings for impact of paid work on domestic labour according to gershuny
found that wives with no job did 83% of the housework, wives with a part time job did 82% and women with full time jobs did 73%
what do silver and schor argue about the impact of paid work on domestic labour?
increased tech mean women have less timely housework to do and they can afford technology because they are now often working, this has led to death of housewife role
examples of tech that reduce housework
hoover, dishwasher, washing machine
dual burden
ferri and smith argue women suffer from dual burden because now go out to work but also have to work in the home
evidence for dual burden according to ferri and smith
sample of 1,589 33 year olds, found that in less than 4% of cases the man was in charge of childcare
what does morris say about the dual burden?
unemployed men see domestic tasks as ‘women’s work’, masculinity has already decreased from unemployment and don’t want to ruin manly image any further by doing housework
triple burden
duncombe and marsden argue may be a triple burden because women are used for emotional support as well as housework/childcare and paid work
gender scripts
dunne argues there are social expectations of women and men’s roles and tasks
