Feminist View of Housework
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- Created on: 12-05-15 10:05
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- Feminist View of Housework
- Reject the 'march of progress' view
- Men and women still remain unequal - women do most of the housework
- Society and the family are patriarchal
- Oakley criticises Young and Willmott's symmetrical family
- 'Helping' their wives could be doing small tasks, and not doing so regulary
- 15% of husbands have high levels of participation in housework
- 25% of husbands have high levels of participation in childcare
- Husbands are more likely to help with childcare than domestic work for pleasure reasons
- Mothers could lose the reward of childcare because of doing more housework
- Boulton: Young and Willmott exaggerate men's contribution
- Sex-typing of domestic tasks
- Young men are more willing to do their fair share
- Women still do more domestic labour
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