Are couples becoming more equal?
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- Created on: 14-03-19 19:11
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- Are couples becoming more equal?
- No
- Jamieson- 'disclosing intimacy'
- relationships remain unequal due to the different roles they have,
- eg, responsibility for bringing up children still falls heavily on women
- relationships are based on deep mutual understanding which outsiders do not share.
- relationships remain unequal due to the different roles they have,
- House wife role
- with industrialisation the home became separate from work and the family became a unit of consumption rather than production
- women gradually became more associated with the domestic sphere
- the idea was first associated with the middle and upper class but workedits way downwards
- it was very difficult for poor familiesafford to only have one parent in work so the women had a double burden
- the idea that paid work was undesirable for women was helped by trade unions arguing for a 'family wage'
- feminists argue that men are patriarchal, women occupy a subordinate role within family
- wives almost always depend economically on their husbands
- Ann Oakley - even when men did some domestic tasks, they were seen as helping and the main responsibility was still the wife's
- she critisized Y&Ws research as they regarded a symmetrical family as one where the man does housework once a week
- larger scale research using survey methods are more reliable- the BSAs Survey showed that in 2012 70% of women always or usually do the laundry
- she critisized Y&Ws research as they regarded a symmetrical family as one where the man does housework once a week
- Radical feminists believe the levels of domestic abuse demonstrates the patriarchal society
- men use violence to preserve their dominant position in society
- 1 in 3 womenthe US experience domestic violence or stalking
- Husbands are more likely to participate in pleasurable childcare aspects
- although 1/3 men play with their 3 y/o, less than 1% care for their sick child
- women have a dual/triple burden
- although there is an increase in women in paid work, for every extra £10,000 salary a woman has, they do 1 hour less of housework a week
- 'Triple shift'
- womenare responsible for managing the emotions and feelings of family members,
- Duncombe and Marsden
- 'Triple shift'
- although there is an increase in women in paid work, for every extra £10,000 salary a woman has, they do 1 hour less of housework a week
- men have more leisure time
- although men spend more time in paid employment, they have 1 and a half more leisure time than women
- men give their wives an allowance system
- men give wives an allowance for family needs, keeps surplus for himself.
- Michelle Barrett and Mary McIntosh (1991)
- Men gain far more from women’s domestic work than they give back in financial support
- The financial support that husbands give to their wives is often unpredictable and comes with strings attached
- Pahl and Vogler(2007) found that even when poolingmen usually made major financial decisions.
- Edgell's study of professional couples
- Very important decisions – usually made by husband alone or jointly with the husband having the final say.
- Important decisions – i.e. children’s education or holidays were usually jointly, but rarely the wife alone.
- Less important decisions – home décor, food are usually made by the wife.
- Jamieson- 'disclosing intimacy'
- Yes
- Joint-conjugal roles are more common
- MOP - Young & Wilmottargue there has been a long term trend towards a symmetrical family
- Sullivan found a trend towards women doing less domestic work and men doing more
- Data collected from 1975, 1987 and 1997
- nationally representative
- there has been a fall in the attitudes towards traditional divisions labour
- British Social Attitudes survey 2013
- in 1984 45% of men thoughts was a woman's job to look after the home and family
- in 2012 only 13% of men thought this
- British Social Attitudes survey 2013
- Future foundation - most men claim to do more housework than their fathers, and most women claimed to do less than their mothers
- Dunne - lesbian couplesare more symmetrical
- Pooling- both partners have access to income and joint responsibility for expenditure.
- most common money management system
- Gershuny - by 1995 70% of couples said they had an equal say in decisions
- cohabiting couples were less likely to pool money, but were more likely to share domestic tasks equally
- Volger et al
- Giddens - fundsmental shift in the meaning of the family
- in the west, marriage is less important than the relationship between the two people
- the relationship is no longer based on mens domination but mutual rights and equal respect
- familieshave had to become more democratic as society has done so,
- people will not accept traditional inequalities in any institution any longer
- No
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