Criticisms- is modern relationships more equal?
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- Criticisms- Is modern relationships more equal?
- INEQUALITIES IN DOMESTIC DIVISION OF LABOUR
- 2008 British Social Survey- 80% of women said they "always/ usually did laundry"
- European Social Survey 2010- Women in PW responsible for two-thirds of total time couples spent on housework
- Women who have to make sacrifices
- Elston's (1980)- Professional wives expected to take major responsibility for dealing childcare arrangement& housework
- Women in PE are still primarily housewives
- Domestic labour refers to unpaid housework and childcare
- Clear inequality between gender
- No pay, no pensions, no holidays& unlimited working hours
- TOFNS 1997- Time spent on unpaid work was valued at the same average pay rate in PE
- Who benefits?
- RF- Problem with patriarchy
- MF- Contributing to reproduction of labour power& patriarchy
- Oakley(1974) Disagrees with Young& Willmott- unconvincing evidence for symmetry
- Boulton (1983)-Surveys exaggerates how much childcare men do
- EMOTIONAL SIDE OF FAMILY- "TRIPLE SHIFT"
- "Triple-shift"
- Paid work, domestic labour, emotional work
- Ducombe& Marsden (1995) Long term relationships held together by women
- Additional work- Functionalists Parson view- "expressive role" now "instrumental" responsibilities
- Taylor- Gooby(2005) Public attitudes gender equality doesn't apply to home
- "Triple-shift"
- INEQUALITIES IN POWER& AUTHORITY
- Decision- making
- Edgell(1960)- Women repsonsility in unimportant areas
- Financial decision making
- Pahl- growing individualisation in couples finances- independence
- Men- Major earners - stronger bargaining than women
- Pahl- growing individualisation in couples finances- independence
- Decision- making
- INEQUALITIES IN DOMESTIC DIVISION OF LABOUR
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