Roles and Relationships Flashcards
What did Bott identify in her study?
Segregated roles - husband and wife lead separate roles with clear and distinct responsibilities
Joint roles - roles are more flexible and shared, leisure time is also shared
What did Dunne discover about lesbian households?
The distribution of responsibilities such as childcare and housework tended to be equal between partners
What was found in Duncombe and Marsden’s study?
Women in families are often required to do housework & childcare, paid employment and emotional work - ‘triple shift’
What did Oakley suggest about the relationship between industrialisation and the creation of the ‘housewife’?
The housewife was socially constructed as a result of people going to work in factories instead of working at home. Married women were often not allowed to work in factories and thus the housewife role was created.
What did Pahl conclude about money management?
In dual-income couples the most common form of financial management was ‘husband-controlled pooling’ where money was shared, but the husband had the dominant role in how it’s spent
What did Stanko’s research say?
A woman is killed by her current or former partner every 3 days in England & Wales
570,000 casss of domestic violence reported in the UK every year
What did Dobash and Dobash (radical feminists) say about domestic violence?
The police usually didn’t record cases of domestic violence
Most women who left violent partners returned in the end due to being financially dependent on them
What do radical feminists say about domestic violence?
Women feel ashamed and stigmatised if they talk about violence, this is part of the ideology of patriarchy
Women feel they should’ve known better - blame on victim
What is the march of progress?
Willmott and Young take a march of progress view towards gender equality. They believe that through industrialisation, there has been an increase in gender equality in society. - symmetrical family.
