couples

Question 1

instrumental and expressive roles

Answer 1

parsons argues women ‘naturally’ and biologically suited to nurturing role and men the provider

Question 2

joint and segregated roles

Answer 2

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

Question 3

symmetrical family

Answer 3

wilmott and young argue roles are becoming more joint conjugal but still some differences

Question 4

examples of family becoming more symmetrical

Answer 4

women go out to work, men help with housework and childcare, couples spend leisure time together

Question 5

eval for symmetrical family

Answer 5

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

Question 6

what does feminist oakley disagree with symmetrical family?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

men’s level of domestic labour according to oakley

Answer 7

found that only 15% of men had a high level of participation in housework and 25% in childcare

Question 8

what did oakley find about the parts of childcare men were involved in?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

what did oakley find most families said bout a fathers role?

Answer 9

‘taking an interest’

Question 10

why does feminist boulton disagree with the symmetrical family?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

level of men being main carer in home according to braun, vincent and ball

Answer 11

in their study of 70 families, in only three of these was the father the main carer

Question 12

what did braun, vincent and ball argue was the role of most fathers?

Answer 12

most are background fathers with a ‘provider ideology’

Question 13

what do warde and hetherington argue about the division of domestic labour?

Answer 13

domestic takes special ally associated with males or females, sex typed as they call it.

Question 14

findings for sex typed roles according to warde and hetherington

Answer 14

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

Question 15

examples of sex typed roles

Answer 15

women - sewing, washing up, ironing, cooking
men - putting bins out, building furniture, painting

Question 16

what does gershuny argue about the impact of paid work on domestic labour?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

findings for impact of paid work on domestic labour according to gershuny

Answer 17

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%

Question 18

what do silver and schor argue about the impact of paid work on domestic labour?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

examples of tech that reduce housework

Answer 19

hoover, dishwasher, washing machine

Question 20

dual burden

Answer 20

ferri and smith argue women suffer from dual burden because now go out to work but also have to work in the home

Question 21

evidence for dual burden according to ferri and smith

Answer 21

sample of 1,589 33 year olds, found that in less than 4% of cases the man was in charge of childcare

Question 22

what does morris say about the dual burden?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

triple burden

Answer 23

duncombe and marsden argue may be a triple burden because women are used for emotional support as well as housework/childcare and paid work

Question 24

gender scripts

Answer 24

dunne argues there are social expectations of women and men’s roles and tasks

Question 25

gender scripsts examples according to dunne

Answer 25

in her study of 36 cohabiting lesbian couples with children, found that domestic tasks were shared because no gender scripts to live up to

Question 26

what do ginn and arber say about the dual burden?

Answer 26

childcare helps M/C avoic dual burden however W/C women who can’t afford childcare are trapped with dual burden

Question 27

what does man-yee kan say about the dual burden?

Answer 27

income, age, education all affect how much housework women did e.g better paid, younger and better educated women did less housework

Question 28

what does man-yee kan say about women who earn more than husband?

Answer 28

ends up doing more housework than the male as the male’s masculinity is threatened

Question 29

graham’s findings on money management between couples

Answer 29

found over half the women in her study preferred benefits to their previous finanical support from husbands after they split, more regular and reliable

Question 30

pooling and allowance systems

Answer 30

pahl and volger identify two types of control over income :
- pooling is where both couples have joint access to income e.g joint bank account
-allowance system is where men give women a budget for the home and childcare and then keep the rest

Question 31

pooling and allowance systems findings according to pahl and volger

Answer 31

compared a sample of 1,211 couples with their parents and found pooling had increased from 19% with the parents to 50% with current couples

Question 32

partial pooling

Answer 32

where couples contribute some of their income to a joint account solely for joint expenses and keep the rest separate, this is more prevalent in unmarried heterosexual couples (especially child free)

Question 33

personal life perspective

Answer 33

focuses on meanings couples give to who controls money, e.g one partner controlling money may not mean inequality in some couples

Question 34

edgell decision making

Answer 34

most important decisions likely to be taken by men (moving house), women tend to make less important decisions (like food choice)

Question 35

domestic violence stats

Answer 35

affects one in 4 women, 6% of cases are men, 2 women die in UK every week because of DV

Question 36

domestic violence stats for LGBT community

Answer 36

over 50% of gay men victims of intimate partner violence and almost 75% of lesbian women

Question 37

what does colman say about domestic violence?

Answer 37

women more likely to have experienced ‘intimate violence’ across partner abuse, family abuse, sexual assault and stalking