family Flashcards
what are conjugal/marital roles?
the distinctive roles of the husband and wife that result from the division of labour within the family
what is bott hypothesis?
elizabeth bott (1957) characterized roles such as segregated and joint
what is a joint conjugal role?
many tasks, interests, and activities are shared
what is a segregated conjugal role?
tasks, interests, and activities are clearly different
beaujot (2000) argues what?
we moved from complementary (segregated) to companionate (joint) relationships
what is complementary roles?
cast men primarily as earner or breadwinners and women primarily in the unpaid work of childcare and house work
what is companionate roles
breadwinning and caretaking roles overlap
married women, especially those with young children, do more unpaid work at home than married men in companionate relationships sometimes. what is this called?
double burden or second shift. imbalance in conjugal roles
what is double ghetto?
describes the marginalization of working women experience inside and outside the home
key to correcting gender imbalances is called..
gender strategy. a plan of action through which a person tried to solve problems at hand, given cultural notions of gender at play
child care responsibilities encourage occupational segregation. what is that
women choose occupations to have greatest flexibility in terms of childcare-related work interruptions
what is a census family
same sex or opposite couple, married or not, living together, with or without children, if any, of either or both spouses
what is fecundity
the physical ability to conceive
total fertility rate is an estimate of the average number of children that a cohort of women between ages ___ and ___ will have in their lifetime
15 and 49
replacement rate is what?
the number of children that the average woman must bear if the overall population is to continue at the same level
