COUPLES

Question 1

Parsons

Domestic division Labour

Answer 1

Husband: instrumental roles
Wife: expressive roles - women naturally fit this role

Question 2

Criticism for parsons division of labour

Answer 2

Young and willmott-
Men are now taking a greater share of domestic tasks

Feminist - division of labour is natural, only benefits men

Question 3

Bott

Answer 3

Segregated conjugal roles - male breadwinner and female homemaker
Joint conjugal roles - couples share the house work and childcare

Question 4

Young and willmott

Answer 4

Symmetrical family

Question 5

Who says the symmetrical family and what are included

Answer 5

Young and Willmott - 
Changes in women’s positions 
Geographical mobility 
New technology
Higher standards of living

Question 6

Who criticises young and willmott

Feminist

Answer 6

Oakley - claims it is exaggerated and men only help around the house

Question 7

What does hochschild say

Answer 7

Emotion work - feminists have noticed that women of a family have to take care of the emotional work of the family members

Question 8

Marsden

Answer 8

Triple shift - housework, paid work, emotion work.

Question 9

What does Gershuny say?

Answer 9

Couples whose parents had more equal relationships are more likely to share housework equally themselves = parental roles are important, social values

Question 10

Pahl and vogler

Answer 10

The allowance system - men give wives an allowance to budget for family needs, rest of the income for himself.
Pooling - both partners have joint access to the income: joint bank account

Question 11

Edgell’s

Decision making

Answer 11

Very important - man (house, change job)
Important - jointly (children’s Ed, holiday)
Less important - female (food, clothes)

Question 12

Carol smart

Personal life perspective

Answer 12

Some gay and lesbian couples attach no importance to who controlled money
Money wasn’t seen as an control factor (doesn’t mean equality and inequality)

Question 13

Dobash and Dobash

Answer 13

Challenging a husbands authority, power change = domestic violence

Question 14

Yearnshire

Answer 14

Women suffers 35 assaults before reporting it

Question 15

Cheal

Answer 15

Police aren’t prepared to get involved with the family: private sphere, dark side of the family

Question 16

Firestone

Radical fem

Answer 16

Key institutions like family and marriage in a patriarchal society = main source of women’s oppression MEN DOMINATE WOMEN THROUGH DV! :(

Question 17

Criticism for domestic violence

Answer 17

Elliot -
Not all men are aggressive, radical feminists ignore this
Radical feminists ignore child abuse, violence in lesbian relationships

Question 18

Ferri and Smith

Answer 18

Fathers only took fewer then 4% of responsibility in families

Question 19

Arber and Ginn

Answer 19

M/c women can afford labour saving devices, help around the house - less domestic work

Question 20

Kan

Answer 20

Every £10,000 a year more a women earns, 2 hours less of housework

Question 21

Gershuny criticism to pahl and vogler - money management

Answer 21

70% of couples said they had equal say in decisions

Found women with Hugh earning, well qualified professionals were more likely to have an equal say

Question 22

Crime survey for England and Wales 2013 (men and domestic violence)

Answer 22

Found 18% (2.9 million) men have experience domestic violence since age 16

Question 23

Wilkinson and Pickett

Material explanation of DV

Answer 23

DV a result of stress on the family caused by social inequality - having fewer resources, reduces stable relationships & increase conflict
Money, jobs, housing, bills…

Question 24

Reason for DV

Crompton and Lyonette

Answer 24

As a result:
GENDER INEQUALITY -
- of patriarchal dominance
- material deprivation, lack of resources

Question 25

dex and ward

Answer 25

Fathers - 78% played their children but only 1% of fathers took care of a sick child