Consequences of inequality in the family
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- Consequences of inequality in the family
- Effects of housework& childcare on women's careers
- Surveys- Women limited in jobs they can do
- Family commitments allow little opportunity to progress in careers
- Three- quarters of part-time workers are women
- Inequalities in employment
- Women who have children-seen as unreliable
- Women temporarily leave jobs to have children- miss out on greater pay& promotions
- Mainly women who have to leave their jobs
- Gatrell (2004)- found women that go back to their jobs- "jelly-heads" - no option but to accept downgraded position
- THE "DARKER SIDE" OF FAMILY LIFE
- Challenges the Functionalists& New right "cereal family" stereotype
- Family unit can be a dangerous and hostile place
- Growing privatization- Lead to emotional stress
- Domestic violence
- 1 in 4 women, will suffer from DM
- 80% committed by men
- Female victims of DM will suffer an average of 35-7 assaults for average period of 7 years before informing agency
- Two-thirds of victims of DM don't seek help- Afraid, ashamed /private matter
- **** in marriage
- 1 in 4 women have been *****- 95% never reported
- Three- quarters of **** take place at home
- 1 in 5 suffer phyycial injury
- Feminist explanations for DM
- RF- DM as a means for men to exercise patriarchal power, state of submission
- MF- Social deprivation, culture of violence (lower status of women)
- Ganley (1995)- Women's inequality in society, essentially showing women whose in charge
- DM has it's roots in structual inequalities
- Effects of housework& childcare on women's careers
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