Conjugal Roles
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- Created on: 03-01-17 13:10
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- Conjugal roles
- Who does what?
- After industrialisation men became breadwinners and women took care of the home
- During WW2 women started to get more involved within the workforce
- women are more likely to carry out tasks that involve caring and emotions where men - financial and practical
- Theories
- Functionalists
- segregated roles in the family are 'natural'
- men - instrumental roles and women - expressive roles (both are needed)
- Feminists
- segregated roles are more widespread than joint roles
- Triple shift: 1) career 2) housework 3) emotional work
- Ann Oakley (1974): greater equality in middle class spouses then working class, but few men had high participation in childcare
- Other theorists
- Willmott and Young: roles used to be segregated/clear division of domestic labour
- Man Ye Kan (2001): women do the majority of house work but the more the women earns the less she does. If both have degrees there was more equality
- Functionalists
- Who does what?
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