Explaining The Gender Division Of Labor

Question 1

who identified the 2 different explanations for the unequal Division of labor

Answer 1

rosemary Crompton & Claire lyonette (2008)

Question 2

what’s the culture/ideological explanation

Answer 2

the Division of labor is determined by patriarchal norms/ values that shape the gender roles in our culture
women perform more domestic work because this is what society expects them to do

Question 3

what’s the material/ economic explanation

Answer 3

women earn less so it’s economically rational for women to do more of the housework, while men earn money

Question 4

what evidence for the cultural explanation did Gershuny (1994) find

Answer 4

found that couples whose parents had a more equal relationship are more likely to share housework themselves

Question 5

what did man yee kan (2001) find

Answer 5

younger men do more domestic work

Question 6

what did the future foundation (2000) find

Answer 6

found that most men claimed to do more housework than their father & most women do less than their mother

Question 7

what did Gillian Dunne (1999) find

Answer 7

lesbian couples had more symmetrical relationships becuase of the absence of traditional hetrosexual ‘gender scripts’

Question 8

what did the british social attitudes survey (2013) find

Answer 8

less than 10% of under 35’s agreed with traditional division of labour, but 30% of the over 65s agreed