Does women working cause more equality in domestic labour?- Families and households

Question 1

What are the 3 figures who argue that it does cause equality?

Answer 1

• Man-Yee-kan
• Schor and silver
• Gershney

Question 2

What are the 4 figures that argue that it doesn’t cause equality?

Answer 2

• Gregson and lowe
• dunne
• duncome and masters
• hardhill

Question 3

Gregson and Lowe

Answer 3

upper and middle class find it more economically beneficial to hire services such as cleaners and nannies which reduce the burden of housework and childcare whilst the women go out to work
- working class women are unable to do this due to not being able to afford it

Question 4

Dunes

Answer 4

There is little change in the division of labor due to ‘gender scripts’ which include the traditional roles and expectations of heterosexual couples which they are expected to fulfill

Question 5

Duncombe and masters

Answer 5

• identified a new element of burden for women ‘emotional work’
• Men have little emotional input into the family and relationships

Question 6

Hardhill

Answer 6

• important decisions are either made by men or jointly
• husbands career takes priority when it comes to making decisions and changes like moving house

Question 7

Man-yee-kann

Answer 7

• Income from employment, age and education impacted the amount of housework that they did
• young, better paid and better educated women were more likely to do less housework

Question 8

Schor and silver

Answer 8

• housework has become more commercialized
• the goods and services which women once had to make themselves are now mass produced and easily accessible
• affordable
• reduce burden of housework for the women

Question 9

Gershney

Answer 9

Although the dual burden of paid work and domestic work still exists, men have been participating more whist their wives have been working