Couples- gender roles Flashcards

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Parsons

Domestic Division of Labour

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Instrumental- husband provider
Expressive- wife, nurturer

1955

Functionalist

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Bott

Domestic Division of Labour

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Conjugal Roles
-Seggregated- seperate, clear divide
-Joint- share tasks, equal labour division

1957

Functionalist

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Young + Willmott

Domestic Division of Labour

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Symmetrical Family
-March of progress view
-Roles are similar, work shared
-Reasons: Womens position, geographical mobility, technology, higher standards of living

1973

Functionalist

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4
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Oakley

Domestic division of labour

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Dual burden
-Y+W claims are exaggerated
-15% men high participation in housework
-25% in childcare

1974

Radical Feminist

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5
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Hochschild, Duncombe and Marsden

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Emotion Work- managing emotions and feeling of family (H)
Triple Shift- housework, paid work and emotion work

H- 2013, D+M- 1995

Radical Feminist

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Southerton

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Quality Time- coordinating managing the families together time
-Difficulty due to 24/7 society, flexible working patterns, time is deroutinised
-‘Women pushed for time’ and are less likely to have consolidated blocks of free time, carry a dual burden of increased activity volume

2011

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Crompton + Lyonette

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-Cultural/ ideological- patriarchal morms and values determine gender roles

-Material/ economic- women generally earn less than men so its rational fo men to go to work and women head the house

2008

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Dunne

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Cultural Explanation
-Lesbian couples have more symmetrical relationships due to the absence of traditional heterosexual ‘gender scripts’

-37 Lesbian couples, found heterosexual couples
under pressure to conform to deeply ingrained patriarchal scripts

-However when one did more paid work hours spent doing domestic were unequal suggesting paid work still affects the DofL

1999

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Ramos, Arber + Ginn

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-MC women able to purchase commercislly produced labour saving equipment

-When woman is the breadwinner man does as much unpaid labour as she would- Ramos 2003

1995

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10
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Pahl + Vogler

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Resources + decision making
-Allowance system
-Pooling- men still hold power

1993

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