Delphy and Leonard - Gender Roles Flashcards
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Delphy and Leonard
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- Feminist Writers who focused on familiar exploitation of women in the family
- Saw the exploitation of women in the family not as a benefit to capitalism, but rather as a benefit to men
- The family is patriarchal in nature and allows men to have a sense of authority at home
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Domestic Labour
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- Domestic Labour that females provided at home would have been rewarded with wages outside of the home
- Deemed to be non-productive when performed in the home- lost their worth and were not counted in the economy
- Home is not a refuge from work for women, but rather an economic microsystem of its home
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Domestic Labour ll
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- Work performed by women is invisible and forms part of a set of expectations of being a wife and mother
- Domestic labour is gendered and when males perform tasks in the home, this is seen as helping out rather than duty
- Men are seen as having minimal responsibilities towards childcare - they babysit their own children
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Role of Males
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- A man’s time in the home was used for leisure based on assumptions that his work was completed outside of the home
- Women did not receive such leisure time, as assumptions were made about them enjoying housework and childcare
- Domains of the household were referred to as being part of a woman’s world - her kitchen
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Evaluations
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- Links to work of mothers such as Oakley and Duncombe and Marsden with the dual burden and triple shift
- Recent changes in division of labour still see women doing more than male counterparts - Gershunny refers to this as a form of lagged adaptation
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Evaluations ll
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- Ignores the role of capitalism in shaping the economics of gendered labour as being lower status
- The role of dual burden and triple shift is taken on in lone-parent families without the presence of males
- Dunne found there to be greater equality in domestic labour in Lesbian households
