Equality of domestic roles- Families and households

Question 1

Key figures who say it is equal?

Answer 1

• Willmott and young
• burges and beck
• sullivan
• beck
• hatter

Question 2

willmott and young

Answer 2

• the extended family has been replaced by the privatized nuclear family which tends to have ‘joint conjugal roles’
• more likely to share leisure time and decision making

Question 3

Burghes and beck

Answer 3

• fathers are increasingly taking an active involvement in the emotional side of caring for their children even when their marriage breaks down

Question 4

hatter et al.

Answer 4

Many fathers lack of involvement is due to working long hours rather than thinking that they shouldn’t have to

Question 5

sullivian

Answer 5

• throughout a 25 year period, it was found that the division of labor was becoming more equal as men did more
• men increasingly participated in traditional ‘women’s’ tasks such as childcare and ironing

Question 6

why is the division of labor becoming more equal?

Answer 6

Couples are more free to define their relationship themselves rather than act out the roles that have been defined in advance by tradition

Question 7

Beck

Answer 7

• Identified a new type of family known as the ‘negotiated family’
• where members will carry out the domestic tasks in accordance to their wishes and experience

Question 8

What figures state that the division of labor is unequal?

Answer 8

• Oakley
• British social attitudes survey 2007
• ferri and smith
• hardhill

Question 9

oakley

Answer 9

• criticizes Willmott and young
• states how their conclusions are drawn from one interview where the amount of domestic labor which is done by men is heavily exaggerated

Question 10

British social attitudes survey 2007

Answer 10

• there is more share in the sharing of childbearing compared to household tasks
• some movement in the division of labor overtime

Question 11

fern and smith

Answer 11

• even when women where i paid work outside of the home and men aren’t, the women still completes most of the child-bearing

Question 12

Hardhill

Answer 12

• Important decisions would either be made by the man or jointly
• Important decisions made such as moving house would be in accordance of the mans career.