Domestic division of labour

Question 1

Gershuny

Answer 1

• used a longitudinal study to measure the effect of women going to work full time. Found out that there was lagged adaptation(when women started work in large numbers , men there is a time delay before men begin to contribute more to housework, an he says that men are doing more but it is taking some time.

Question 2

Ethnicity - Berthoud

Answer 2

• South Asian families adopt more traditional gender roles than whites. A high proportion of African-Caribbean families are headed by lone mothers which means that mothers often combine paid work with full responsibility of housework and childcare.

Question 3

Dunscombe and Marsden

Answer 3

Carried out research on 40 middle class couples and they found women felt they were carrying a demanding triple shift where they had to combine paid work with domestic work and emotion work and this was unfair/negative on them

Question 4

Hakim

Answer 4

Based on time-budget studies across Europe and argues that men and women do the same number of hours if paid work and domestic work are added together into one. (men do more paid work than women)