Impact of paid labour and decision making, Domestic violence Flashcards
What is the domestic division of labour?
The labour that is completed with the home
What is decision making?
How the family determines how decisions are made (financially, day to day, life changing.)
what is the instrumental role?
The males role of being a ‘breadwinner’
What is the expressive role?
The females role of being the ‘emotional and caring’ usually includes child care and domestic labour
What are seperatal conjugal roles?
A couple with seperate roles
What are joint conjugal roles?
Couples with sharing roles
Who argues for the different roles?
Elizabeth Bott (1957)
What is the march of progress?
division between men and women are gradually improving
Who supports the idea of the march of progress?
Wilmott and Young
What are symmetrical families?
Roles between men and women are more similar
What does dobash and dobash have evidence for?
Patriarchy according to firestone and millet (1976)
What is a key reason there is domestic violence towards women caused by men?
Men misuse their poert and control within a context of male privilege?
When was rape illegal within marriage?
1990
How many women were raped by husbands in 1989?
1/7
How many domestic assaults are reported a year?
6.6 million
