CTRF #15 Conjugal Roles and Domestic Chores Factors:11. Class Difference
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- Conjugal Roles and Domestic Chores Factors: 11. Class Difference
- For many women full time child care is essential if they are to hold down any form of employment or career
- Arber and Ginn (1995)
- Argue that while middle class women can often afford such childcare, working class women cannot and are therefor trapped in a vicious circle of childcare responsibilities and low-paid, part time employment
- Gregson and Lowe (1994)
- Working-class families however cannot afford to do this and often carry out the dual burden and unpaid domestic work
- In their study of employment of domestic "help" by dual earner middle-class family's found that it was more economical to employ working class nannies and cleaners that for the wife to stay at home
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