Couples Flashcards
What is the domestic division of labour?
The tiles that men and women play in relation to the housework, childcare and said work.
What is Parsons instrumental and expressive roles?
Instrumental roles- men’s roles- breadwinner, cars, DIY, finances
Expressive- women’s roles- cooking, cleaning, emotional work, childcare.
What is Botts segregated roles?
Where the couple have separated holes and responsibilities; the women as care giver and housewife and the male as breadwinner
What is Botts joint roles?
Where the couple share paid work, domestic tasks and childcare. Share leisure activities.
What is Wilmott and Youngs symmetrical family?
In which husbands and wives files are more like joint conjugal roles than they were, although there are still some differences between men and women’s roles and responsibilities.
What is an example of changes in women’s roles?
Women now go into paid work, they are no longer solely responsible for a family
What is an example of geographic mobility?
More couples living away from the communities they grew up in. Couples move for work or settle in cities they went to university in.
What is an example of new technologies?
Dishwashers, hoovers, washing machines mean that both men and women do the housework and spend less time doing it
What is an example of higher standards of living?
Linked to changes in women’s roles because women have more disposable income. Makes men stay at home because of tv and internet.
How does Compton argue that the division of labour is still unequal?
Men still earn more than women- women earn 3/4 of what men earn. Women earn less so they will be expected to do more housework.
What 4 characteristics does the symmetrical family have?
Stable
Child-centerdness
Greater levels of equality between males and females
Mutual adaption between needs of home and economy
What are the issues with stability?
Rising divorce rates
Domestic violence
Child abuse
What is the issues with child-centredness?
Or centred on the needs of the adults?
Or centred on the needs of the economy?
What are the issues with greater levels of equality between males and females?
Pay gap
Women do more housework
Men dominate decision making
What are the issues with mutual adaption between needs of home and economy?
Mutual adaption? It focused on the needs of the economy at the expense of family life- increase in dual career families
What does Oakley argue about symmetrical families?
What it is a huge overstatement because Mende hell with housework may be tiny. It make be making breakfast or taking the children to parks on the odd occasion. Only 15%of men had a high level of participation in housework at 25% in childcare. Men only take part in the enjoyable parts.
What does Boulton argue?
That the symmetrical family was an exaggeration. Less than 20% of husbands had a major role in childcare. Women were nearly always responsible for the security and wellbeing of the children.
What do Warde and Hetherington show?
Domestic takes specifically associated with males or females. Wives were 30x more likely to be the soft person to have washed up and men were 4x more likely to have washed the car.
What did Gershuny find?
Thag women who do paid work do less work without the home. Wives with no job did 83% of housework, wives with a part-time job did 82% and women who for full time work do 73% of housework. Also find the longer a women was in laid work for, the more housework her husband did.
What do Silver and Schor argue?
Increased technology mean women have less timely housework to do, they can afford it because they are now often working.
What do Ferri and Smith provide evidence for?
That women suffer from a dual burden of paid work and domestic work. Less than 4% of 1589 33 year olds were men that was in charge of childcare
What did morris find to back up the dual burden?
Unemployed men see domestic tasks as women work be CSS yer their masculinity is decreased and won’t want to ruin the macho manly image any further
What is Duncombe and Marsden find about the triple burden?
Women are used for emotional support as well as housework and childcare, paid work, and emotional labour including caring for sick child with compassion.
What did Man-Yee Kan find?
That income from employment, age and education affected Joe much housework women did. Better paid, younger, better educated women did less housework. Having a degree but women in a better position. However, if the woman earns more than a man the women ends up doing more housework as the males masculinity is threatened.
What is Carol Voglers pooling?
Where both partners have joint access to income, for example having a joint bank account
What is Carol Voglets allowance system?
Where men give women a budget got the home and childcare and keep the rest
What does Pahl note about pooling?
That it does not necessarily mean there is equality- we need to know who controls the pooled money and whether each partner contributes equally x
What is the personal life perspectives on money management?
Meaning couples I’ve go who controls the money. The meaning that money may have in the relationship cannot be taken for granted. We may assume that someone is controlling the money, but for some it may not have this meaning.
What is argued about domestic violence?
That it is far too widespread for it to simply be the work of a few disturbed people
It does not occur randomly but followed particular social patterns that have social causes
What did Coleman find about domestic violence?
Women more likely than men to have experienced intimate violence across all four types of abuse- partner abuse, family abuse, sexual assault and stalking.
What did Dobash and Dobash site examples of in domestic violence?
Violent domestic abuse from sensitive interviews with citizens shown that incidences were set off from work challenging men.
What stats did Yearnshire find?
That on average a woman sufferers 35 assaults before making a report.
What are police reluctant to do?
Record investigate of prosecute those causes that are reported to them due to not willing to become involved in the family.
What are stats not a real representation of domestic violence?
They do not include the dark figure of crime.
What do radical feminists Millet and Firestone argue?
That all societies have been founded on patriarchy. They see key division in society as that between men and women
How do radical feminists see domestic violence?
Male domination of state institutions helps to explain the reluctance of the police and courts to deal effectively with cases of domestic violence
What is the evaluation for radical feminists view?
Men can be victims of domestic violence
Laws protecting women, marital rape act, march of progress
What is the materialistic explanatio
The result of stress on family members caused by social inequalities. Low incomes and over crowded accommodation leads to more levels of stress
What is the evaluation for the materialistic explanation?
They do not explain why women are more likely to suffer domestic violence than men- Marxist feminists seek to explain this
What is the Marxist feminists reasons for violence?
Inequality as causing domestic violence. Women are the takers of shit. Domestic violence is the product of capitalism. Make workers are exploited at work and take it out on women
What is the evaluation of Marxists feminist explanations?
If I’d economically deterministic- it takes the blame away from the individual and not all working class men carry out domestic violence
