gender roles Flashcards
ERSC (2013)
-A womans work is never done
-strain of housework
-full time and childcare
-responsibility is endless
mcveigh- females still do most housework
8/10 women
only 1/10 men
13% males only do more then women
dunne- lesbian lifestyles
lesbians dont have tradiotnal gender scripts
egulatarian RS
40:60 split of housework
Gershury-cant earn enough
due to pressure of staying home
have to reduce time on unpaid work to increase paid hours
Sue sharpe
1974- housewives
1996- focus on careers
anne oakely- socilasisation
girls play w kitchen and dolls
boys play with cars and bricks
media and tv create roles
woman- expressive
men- breadwinner
Patsons- biological basis
woman have to be attentive to emotional needs for fam
men have to be sucessful for fam
segregation
how can you critcise parsons
unlikely a biological basis
but actually due to environemt
femnists- patriarchal society benefit men
harkness- woman have greater burden (2005)
woman do most housework and look after kid
father not very likely to be in childcare
housework, childcare and full career
3/4 dual earners now
duncame and marsden- woman have greater burden
longer term RS held by women most the time not men
woman emotioanlly - listen and understand
and mediators and expressive (emotional work)
tripe shift- resp for paid, domestic labour and childcare
oakley- men not doing more
fathers spent 25% of time in childcare - once a week and would do only fun aspects such as go park
ferri and smith (support oakley)
woman still hv main resp at home
childcare was 4% of a mans main career at the households looked at
evaluate ferri and smith
woman pay others to do their work(commercialisation)
duncombe and marsden claim woman do triple shift, emotional work and paid work
gershury (1994)- men doiing more,
(change in womens posititon)
woman do full time led to more shared housework
woman who worked did less
husband had to do more
but still divison in the tasks they did
evaluate gershury
(link to silver)
jus bc women had to do less doesnt mean men did much
silver- housework became comercialised
young and will mott - men doing more
(families become more symmetrical)
more symmertical fmailies
men help w childcare and women can work
change in woman position
evaluate young and will
only seen in ldn- not representative
ferri smith- woman still hv burden of being resp on childcare and paid work
mcveigh- 8/10 women still do more housework
working mothers - khanum
work part time bc of childcare
feel need to work twice as hard
leaving guilty for leaving kid behind
may have to stay extra hrs after work
edgell (finance and decision making)
woman mainly were responsibile for home deco and furnishing
woman less say on finances e.g taking out loans
woman still focus on major housework
less than half of working women responsible for finances
independence- own bank acc
men- more likely to take out a loan
women- pressure to use money on childcare
