Roles And Relationships

Question 1

Domestic division of labour

Answer 1

Young and Willmott described conjugal rolled in the contemporary family as joint

Question 2

Dual roles and triple shift

Answer 2

As more women have undertaken paid work, researchers have studied the role strain they do while still doing domestic roles

Question 3

Less conventional households

Answer 3

Mansfield and Collard suggest there is a far greater emphasis sharing of tasks and power in cohabiting households, especially when there are no children as couples take pride in creating a relationship that is different than marriage

Question 4

Decision making

Answer 4

Stephen Edgell found that middle-class women were happy for their husbands to make major decisions

Question 5

Control of finances

Answer 5

Jan Pahl found the most common arrangement was for them to pool money but for the husband to have greater say

Question 6

Domestic violence