FAH - T1 - COUPLES
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- FAH - T1 - couples
- Are couples becoming more equal?
- Impact of paid work
- Oakley: women working = now have dual burden
- MoP view
- Gershuny: working women do less housework than other women
- British Social Attiitude survey: fall in people who think men earn money whilst women job is homemaker. Only 12% agree
- Feminist view
- Dual burden. BSA survey: women 13 hrs housework, men 8. 60% women find unfair
- Allan: women's tasks less satisfying
- Dual burden. BSA survey: women 13 hrs housework, men 8. 60% women find unfair
- Taking responsibility for children
- Boulton: although fathers help mothers usually responsiile for child's wellbeing
- Dex and Ward: only 1% take care of sick chiildren
- Braun, Vincent, Ball: fathers hold 'provider ideology' - media 'intensive mothering' images
- Duncombe + Marsden: triple shift:
- Hoschild: emotion work: manage feelings of famiily members
- Boulton: although fathers help mothers usually responsiile for child's wellbeing
- Taking responsibility for quality time
- Southerton: women charge of organising time. Difficult to with modern society flexible work patterns
- women experience leisure - interrupted by children. Men - uninterrupted
- Southerton: women charge of organising time. Difficult to with modern society flexible work patterns
- Explaining gender division of labour
- Crompton + Lyonette: explanations of gender division of labour:
- cultural: patriarchal norms + expectations
- material: women earn less - economically ratioinal to do housework
- Crompton + Lyonette: explanations of gender division of labour:
- Evidence for cultural expl.
- Gershuny: parents with parents equal relationship equal themselves
- Dunne: lesbian couples symmetrical becuse of absense of gender roles
- Evidence for material explanation
- Arber and Ginn: women buy products to reduce labour
- Ramos: where women does full time work men do as much housework if unemployed
- Impact of paid work
- Domestic division of labour
- Parsons: instrumental and expressive roles
- instrumental = husband = breadwinner. expressive =wife = homemaker
- women naturally suited to role - biologically
- Young + Wilmott: men take greater share of tasks
- Feminists: division benefits men
- women naturally suited to role - biologically
- instrumental = husband = breadwinner. expressive =wife = homemaker
- joint and segregated conjugal roles
- Bott: two types of roles within marriage
- joint: both share tasks - housework, childcare, leisure
- segregated: instrumental and expressive
- Bott: two types of roles within marriage
- symmetrical family
- Young and Wilmott: MoP view: family life improves and more equal
- trend towards joint conjugal roles
- women now go to work
- men help with chiildcare
- spend leisure time together
- study: families in LDN - younger more symmetrical
- result of new technology, high standards of living, changes n women's position, geographical mobility
- Young and Wilmott: MoP view: family life improves and more equal
- Feminist view of housework
- Oakley eval of Y+W. No equal family - patriarchy. Husbands take fun aspects of childcare, playing in park. Women lose fun aspect, no reward
- Warde and Hetherington: men only do female tasks when partners not around - sextyped jobs = men wash car, women do washing
- Parsons: instrumental and expressive roles
- Resources and decision making
- money management
- Pahl + Vogler: two types of controlled family: pooling and allowance system - poolin on increase
- decision making
- Pahl and Vogler: pooling doesn't indicate equality. Men make financial choices
- Hardiill: study of 30 dual career couples found mens' career takes priority
- Edgell: study of professional couples: very important decisions - husband final say. important decisions - wife alone. Less important - wife
- wife economically dependent on husband - less say
- Pahl and Vogler: pooling doesn't indicate equality. Men make financial choices
- Cultural vs material expl.
- Feminists - cultural aspect of men gender role socialisation to be decision maker
- meaning of money
- Pahl - who controls money.Men earning twice as much paying same as wife = inequalty
- Vogler: couples less likely to pool because of desire for independence
- Nyman: money has no automatic fixed meaning - couples define it differently
- Personal life perspective on money
- meanings may be unequal to one couple ut not to another
- Smart: lesbian couples do not attach money to equality
- Weeks: typical pattern to pool some money - maintain co-independence. Household shared, personal not
- Kempson: W/C women barely eat to make ends meet
- money management
- Domestic violence
- Official statistics
- not true representation because:
- 1. victims do not report. Yearnshire: women suffer 35 assault before reporting to police
- 2. Cheal: police reluctant to investigate family private sphere. Family = good thing - no darker side. Individuals = free agents - can leave iif want
- women financially dependent on men cannot leave
- not true representation because:
- Sociologist challenge view of "disturbed individuals". far too widespread to be act of some individuals. Not random - known attacker
- Coleman + Osborne: two women a week killed by ex partner
- Doash + Dobash: violence set off as husbands feeling threat to authority. Marriage allows D.V as makes wife dependent and husband authority
- Coleman + Osborne: two women a week killed by ex partner
- Radical fem. expl.
- Millet and Firestone: society founded on patriarchy - men enemy of women. Family and marriage = main source of women oppression
- widepsread D.V = inevitable in patriarchal society.
- before 91 husbands legally ***** wives
- Elliot: not all men aggressive + do not explain violent lesbians or abused men
- National stats: do not explain why some women more at risk e.g. W/C, drugs, young
- widepsread D.V = inevitable in patriarchal society.
- Millet and Firestone: society founded on patriarchy - men enemy of women. Family and marriage = main source of women oppression
- Materialist expl.
- Wilkinson and Pickett: M.D houses face more tension + stress from money worries
- although showing ineuality W+P do not explain why women rather than men are main victims
- Marxist: Ansley: women = takers of **** - product of capitalism who men take anger out on
- Wilkinson and Pickett: M.D houses face more tension + stress from money worries
- Official statistics
- Are couples becoming more equal?
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