Couples Flashcards
Parsons
Expressive and instrumental roles
Expressive - women, housework
Instrumental - men, breadwinners
Roles based on biology, e.g women look after kids and benefits all family.
Counter for parsons
Young and willmott - family is now symetrical
Bott
Joint and segregated conjugal roles
Joint - share chores and work
Segregated - men make money, women stay home
Young and wilmott
Symmetrical family
Couples now do similar chores e.g work, housework and spend time together.
4 things caused symmetrical family
- technology
- standards of living goin up
- geographical mobility
- women working
Oakley
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
Gershuny
MoP
Women who work full time do less housework than those who don’t
British social attitudes survey
MoP View of Div of Lab
In 1984, 45% men and 41% women thgt roles were segregated
In 2012, 13% men and 12% women thgt the same thing
British social attitudes survey
Feminist view of Div of Lab
in 2012, men did 10 hours of care for family a week while women did 23.
Ferri and Smith
parents responsability
Men took responsibility for childcare in less than 4% of families.
Mardsen
Triple Shift of emotional, paid and domestic work
Southerton
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.
Crompton and Lyonette
Explaining division of labour
2 explaintaitons:
- Cultural/ideological (Patriarchy)
- material/economic (women earn less so makes sense for them to stay home and do domestic work)
Gershuny
Couples whos parents had a more equal relationship were more likely to share chores
Man Yee Kan
Younger men do more house work
Kan
For every 10k women make they do 2hrs less housework a week
Women earning
Women earn less in 7/8 households
Counter for Kan as it means they will be doing more housework than men still
Pahl and Vogler
2 types of income control:
- allowance (man gives woman budget)
- pooling (pool it all together)
they note pooling is now the most common
Stephen Edgell
- 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.
Counter for Edgell
Laurie and Gershuny - in 1995, 70% of couples said they had equal say in decisions.
Nyman
Money has no fixed meaning and all couples will give it something different.
Smart
gays attached no meaning to money and didn’t care who had control over it, it wasn’t an issue for them.
