Gender Roles

Question 1

Young and willmot (1973)

Answer 1

March of progress view- moving away from separated roles to joint. Towards the ‘symmetrical family’, where roles of husbands and wives are getting more similar.

Question 2

Bott (1957) there are two types of conjugal roles:

Answer 2

Segregated conjugal role- couple has separate roles. Male is breadwinner, women is homemaker, leisure time is often separate

Joint conjugal roles- couples shares household tasks and childcare. Leisure time often spent together