Domestic labour gender roles and the family
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- Created on: 10-05-15 11:35
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- Domestic Labour and Gender roles in the family
- Wilmot and Young
- The 'Symmetrical family', becoming equal in London equal unpaid + paid
- however, doesn't mean equal tasks ie. men DIY
- Feminists oppose the idea family symmetrical
- Radical feminist Oakley
- Interviews household tasks done by women. 40 married women
- MC symmetrical WC traditional gen indentity
- Interviews household tasks done by women. 40 married women
- Helen Couprie- 2000 people, women alone 10 hours together 15
- Radical feminist Oakley
- The 'Symmetrical family', becoming equal in London equal unpaid + paid
- Feminists oppose the idea family symmetrical
- Radical feminist Oakley
- Interviews household tasks done by women. 40 married women
- MC symmetrical WC traditional gen indentity
- Interviews household tasks done by women. 40 married women
- Helen Couprie- 2000 people, women alone 10 hours together 15
- Radical feminist Oakley
- British Social Attitudes Survey more people sharing task
- Sullivan 25 yr period equality men done more womens task
- Post modernist Giddens recent decades equality couple can choose themselves
- Boulton men help child care mainly women
- Ferri + Smith women more responsibility in childcare
- Decision making and power
- Edgell men make most financial decisions compared to women who make decisions over child rearing
- Pahl each partners income effects decision making 'pooling' joint bank = more decisions BUT men made finance decisions
- Explanations for inequality
- funct- diff tasks = run smoothly
- Marx- diff roles/power/ control for cap + unpaid labour
- Fem- inequality patriarchy
- Women and Emotion work
- Diana bell "economy of emotion" women run fam like book keeping 'emotion budget'
- Duncombe + Mardenden triple shift + emotion work gendered
- Dunne Lesbian households more equality
- Domestic Violence power
- NF fail to reflect reality
- BCS 1/6 crime
- Barnon 2005 abused women 5x more likely commit suicide
- 1 women every 16 seconds affected DV
- Lack income= high stress=conflict = DV
- Theoretical explanations
- Functionalists natural division ie. parsons
- Lib Fem improved over time ie. sex discrimination act continued improvement
- However... Ellitt says fem fail to explain female violence + why not all men act this way
- Rad feminist patriarchy = division
- Dobash + Dobash cultural support believe right to discipline partners womeb too dependent
- Rad feminist patriarchy = division
- However... Ellitt says fem fail to explain female violence + why not all men act this way
- Leach too much expectation of marriage, need to move away nuc fam emotional overload
- However... Ellitt says fem fail to explain female violence + why not all men act this way
- Rad feminist patriarchy = division
- Dobash + Dobash cultural support believe right to discipline partners womeb too dependent
- Rad feminist patriarchy = division
- However... Ellitt says fem fail to explain female violence + why not all men act this way
- Marx Feminists inequalities serve capitalism, reproduction work force etc...
- Wilmot and Young
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