Domestic Division of Labour
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- Domestic Division of Labour
- Pre-Industrial Times
- Household tasks not clearly distinguished from general economic tasks
- Pahl 1948
- Industrial Revolution
- Men become increasingly identified with the public world of production and wage labour
- Women confined to private sphere of consumption and the home
- Parsons 1955
- Traditional heterosexual nuclear family works like a mini society
- Male instrumental role
- Female expressive role
- Provides 'correct' primary socialisation
- Stabilization of adult personalities
- Warm Bath theory
- Men support financially and discipline children (+wife)
- Wife provides emotional support
- Willmott and Young
- Longitudinal study in 1950s + 1970s
- Rise of symmetrical family
- March of Progress view
- Domestic roles are more equal
- Women are working, and leisure time spent together
- Oakley 1974
- 'The Sociology of Housework'
- Families are not symmetrical
- No March of Progress
- 25% of fathers show high levels of participation in childcare
- Only more pleasurable activities
- Men seen as 'helping' with the housework
- McVeigh (2012): 8/10 women do more household chores than their partner
- ONS: women spend on average 2.5 hours a day on housework, men spend 1 hour
- British Social Attitudes Survey (2013)
- Attitudes towards gender equality have changed
- Practice is still very traditional
- 1984: 43% agreed 'a man's job is to earn money; a woman's job is to look after the home and family'
- 13% now take this view
- 1989: 64% think a mother should stay at home
- 2012: 33% now have this view
- 60% of women report doing more than their fair share of household work
- Compared to 10% of men
- Other Policies That Give Women Greater Freedom
- 1948 Welfare State
- 1969 Divorce Reform Act
- Giddens
- Stacey
- Beck
- Weeks
- Pre-Industrial Times
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