domestic division of labour

Question 1

what are the traditional gender roles

Answer 1

women - expressive (housework)
men - instrumental (breadwinner)

Question 2

what is the march of progress view?

Answer 2

-young and willmott
-early industrial family was based on segregated roles
-after Industrial Revolution the roles were more equal (shared conjugal roles)

Question 3

why has there been more equality?

Answer 3

-more women in work
-paternity leave
-feminism
-technology lessens housework

Question 4

what’s an arguments against change being exaggerated

Answer 4

-more women in full-time work than ever before
-1971 - 53% of women
-2013 - 67% of women

Question 5

what are some arguments for change being exaggerated

Answer 5

-bayfield ( women still have the most domestic work even in dual career households)
-rapoports (career women are still viewed first as wives/mothers)
-hochschild (full time working women spent 3h a day doing housework, men spent 17m)
-oakley (studied 40 housewives, said they were as alienated by their work as factory workers and had similar coping mechanisms)