Power And Control Flashcards
Statistics of BBC housework survey?
-Most Uk household agreed that chores should be shared
-3/4 believed domestic labour should be split
-48% of brits believe man’s job is to get money and women is to cook and clean 9%
-Mixed sex houses 63% women said they did most of housework but 22% said they feel a burden admitting they do lest
-Women complete a ‘second shift’
What is the domestic division of labour?
Refers to the pattern in the organization of tasks done in the household e.g. cooking cleaning, caring for children and DIY are based on gender roles
What’s the march of progress?
Greater equality between men and women in sharing tasks
What is egalitarian?
Equal in terms of the family equality between man and woman
Young and Wilmott- the symmetrical family?
Looked at w/c family in 1950 and found traditional segregated men and women roles
W/C 72% of men did housework other than washing up, most likely to share house work, paid and childcare. Spend leisure together
Symmetry common in affluent houses, reason for symmetry is women’s changing position, geog mobility, new tech and high living standards
Bott- conjugal roles?
Joint conjugal roles means sharing roles within marriage
Sperated means housewife and breadwinner
Since 1970’s joint are more common within m/c
Van Everys Reaserch?
Did study on shared relationships and found the respondents:
Didn’t tell names
Didn’t tell people they were couple
Shared cool on of they enjoyed cooking but those that don’t would eat convinent food
-Case study Val didn’t enjoy cooking but still didn’t
Critics of Van Everys Reaserch?
Aimed at a certain type of family, not looking at overall family
Underepresentative
What does Kan say about men in childcare and domestic work?
Men involved in childcare more than housework
British men time spend on domestic work increased from 90 mins per day in 1960s to 148 mins per day 2004
How do Vincent and Ball challange Kan?
‘Background fathers’
Men helped out with childcare and more about relationship feather than responsibility of being a father
Provider ideology
What is the triple shift?
Women today have paid, domestic and emotional work
Liberal Femenists- Ann Oakley belief?
Only 15% of men in study had high participation in housework
25% had higher participation in childcare triple shift
Craig 2007 belief?
Women do 1/3 and 1/2 more housework then men
Equality begins when couple move I’m together before children , inequality is ‘partnership penalty’
As couple marry the wife’s domestic labour raised and the husbands falls more then when they are single
-‘mother penalty’ when couple have a baby their mother will financially be worse of compared to ,dm
Ben Galim and Thompson belief?
8/10 married women carried out more household chores then men
1 married man 10 did equal amounts of chores than wives
Patterns of housework changes since 1980s, conducted this as 8/10 women in 1988 said they do more laundry and chores than man
Mums net 2014?
Questioned nearly 1000 working women found they did double the housework despite doing a full day of housework in major events such as Christmas women are mainly responsible for organising events
BBC on equality in family’s?
Modern marriage characteristics by chore wars
Consists of conflicts over chores in marriage
2/3 of 18-34 admitted they argued over housework
Women regularly frustrated with mentor housework as they didn’t meet the standards
Cultural explanations?
-Equality will be achieved only when norms and gender roles changed in attitudes roles and expectation
Cultural explanations- Gershury?
Parental couple who have equal relationship and housework
Parental role models are important, should establish morn of men housework
Cultural explanations- ManKee Kan?
Younger men do more domestic work, most men do more housework than father women do less general shifts
Cultural explanations- Gillian Dunner?
Lesbian couples have more equality due to heterosexual couples
Material explanations?
If women earn same as men we should see men and female equal domestic labour
Material explanations- Kan?
Every 10,000 year more a women earns she does 2 hrs less housework
Material explanations- Sara Aber?
m/c women were able to buy labour saving devices, ready meals, childcare rather than doing it themselves
Material explanations- Xaviour Ramos?
Breadwinner women and mans unemployed he does as much domestic labour as she does
Material explanations- Sullivan?
Working full time vs part time makes a huge difference in how much domestic work partners do
How does Dunne challenge the gender scripts?
Its shared between each women so its halved for each people
They may still experience the triple shift but its half the work than people in heterosexual relationship as its both women and no gender discrimination
Edgall and decision making?
Interviewed both husbands and wives about who made the decisions and also asked them which decisions they thought were most important
-Men were more likely to make the less frequent more important decisions whereas women made the more frequent less important decisions
Pahl and Vogler on money making?
Interviews both husband and wives about money organisation and identified that even when money was pooled together in joint accounts men were still more likely to have control over this and were more likely to make the major financial decisions
Hardhill and money making?
Found greater equality in middle class households
Xavier Rams on money?
Says even if their breadwinner in the family theirs still equal amounts between women and unemployed en
Smart- why should we look at money from a personal life prespective?
It shows individual involvement
Same sex marriages are less likely to emphasise financial power due to the fact they’ve grown up with different norms and values and don’t seem money as power
Compared to a hetersoexual relationsjop where men may believe this
Hochschild Duncombe and Marsden on emotional work?
Women take on the emotional work in families
They take the burden for holding the relationship with their partners together as well as managing the relationship between other member of the households
e.g. relationships and family, taking care of children and mental health
Functionalist on emotional work?
Happiness comes from family so will disagree with the fact that its emotional work
e.g. warm bath theory
Feminist on emotional work?
Women do face the burden of emotional work
Domestic violence- Dobash and Dobash?
Women are more likely to be victims of domestic violence
Why might domestic violence occur in relationships?
If males are breadwinners they may believe that if their wife isn’t doing housework then dv will come into play
Creating another divide as their will be an inequality in the power dynamic
Marxist feminist on domestic violence?
Links to the punchbag theory power of partner
Radical feminist on dv?
Patriarchy’s a huge problem
Only way to get rid of dv is to ban men
Liberal feminist on domestic violence?
Women used to face dv much more often but due to equality these numbers are decreasing
Criticism of Young and Wilmott?
When they say the march of progress, they only focus on middle class affluent couples
