Couples

Question 1

Parsons

Answer 1

Expressive and instrumental roles

Expressive - women, housework
Instrumental - men, breadwinners

Roles based on biology, e.g women look after kids and benefits all family.

Question 2

Counter for parsons

Answer 2

Young and willmott - family is now symetrical

Question 3

Bott

Answer 3

Joint and segregated conjugal roles

Joint - share chores and work
Segregated - men make money, women stay home

Question 4

Young and wilmott

Answer 4

Symmetrical family

Couples now do similar chores e.g work, housework and spend time together.

Question 5

4 things caused symmetrical family

Answer 5

• technology
• standards of living goin up
• geographical mobility
• women working

Question 6

Oakley

Answer 6

Men help, main responsibility lies with women

E.g.

• 15% men had high participation in housework & 25% high participation in childcare

As men ‘help’ by playin thy actually take away enjoyable part from woman

Question 7

Gershuny

MoP

Answer 7

Women who work full time do less housework than those who don’t

Question 8

British social attitudes survey

MoP View of Div of Lab

Answer 8

In 1984, 45% men and 41% women thgt roles were segregated

In 2012, 13% men and 12% women thgt the same thing

Question 9

British social attitudes survey

Feminist view of Div of Lab

Answer 9

in 2012, men did 10 hours of care for family a week while women did 23.

Question 10

Ferri and Smith

parents responsability

Answer 10

Men took responsibility for childcare in less than 4% of families.

Question 11

Mardsen

Answer 11

Triple Shift of emotional, paid and domestic work

Question 12

Southerton

Answer 12

Quality time needs to be organised as time is now fragmented due to variety of shifts.

Also notes that mens leisure is in blocks but womens is interrupted by kids, giving them a dual burden of multitasking.

Question 13

Crompton and Lyonette

Explaining division of labour

Answer 13

2 explaintaitons:

• Cultural/ideological (Patriarchy)
• material/economic (women earn less so makes sense for them to stay home and do domestic work)

Question 14

Gershuny

Answer 14

Couples whos parents had a more equal relationship were more likely to share chores

Question 15

Man Yee Kan

Answer 15

Younger men do more house work

Question 16

Kan

Answer 16

For every 10k women make they do 2hrs less housework a week

Question 17

Women earning

Answer 17

Women earn less in 7/8 households

Counter for Kan as it means they will be doing more housework than men still

Question 18

Pahl and Vogler

Answer 18

2 types of income control:

• allowance (man gives woman budget)
• pooling (pool it all together)

they note pooling is now the most common

Question 19

Stephen Edgell

Answer 19

• very important isues (man)
• important (joint)
• not important (woman)

shows men make all important decisions and women get the shit ones like whats for dinner.

Question 20

Counter for Edgell

Answer 20

Laurie and Gershuny - in 1995, 70% of couples said they had equal say in decisions.

Question 21

Nyman

Answer 21

Money has no fixed meaning and all couples will give it something different.

Question 22

Smart

Answer 22

gays attached no meaning to money and didn’t care who had control over it, it wasn’t an issue for them.