gender roles and division of DL

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  • Gender Roles and Division of DL
    • Emotion Work and Triple Shift
      • women's work as expressive leader of the family
      • Dunscombe and Marsden
        • Women have to perform a 'triple shift' of economic, emotional and domestic work
    • Commercialis-ation of housework
      • Silver and Schor
        • House work has become more commercialis-ed
          • Resulted in a reduction in the amount of time women spend on housework
    • March of Progress view of the 'New Man'
      • Gershuny
        • more women work full time
          • resulted in more equal DL division in home
      • Sullivan
        • analysed nationally representative data
          • found men doing greater share of DL tasks
    • Men and childcare
      • Fisher et al.
        • found childcare by fathers rose 800% between 1975 and 1997
        • majority of time fathers spend with kids is spent playing whereas mothers responsible for child's needs
      • Boulton
        • found mothers remained responsible for child's security and well-being
      • Dex and Ward
        • Only 1% of fathers cared for child when sick
    • Unemployed men
      • Morris
        • found unemployed men 'lost' their masculine identity as breadwinners
        • DL is seen as woman's job so they avoided it as it would lead to feeling less masculine
      • Ramos
        • found unemployed men do the same amount of work as their employed wives
    • Lesbian couples
      • Dunne
        • higher levels of symmetry and egalitarianism in lesbian relationships
          • because these couples do not follow 'gender scripts'
        • Supports radical feminist view that heterosexual relationships are inevitably patriarchal
      • Goldberg
        • lesbian couples divided DL tasks equally
    • Invention of leisure time
      • Southerton
        • it's increasingly difficult for mothers to juggle responsibilit-ies, leisure time and famil social activities
        • men and women have similar amounts of leisure time but have different experiences of it
          • women more likely to multi-task and have time disrupted by childcare
          • men more likely to have periods of uninterrupted free time
    • Hetherington and Warde
      • Found men only carry out 'female' tasks when partners no there to do it for them
      • Found sex-typing of domestic tasks remained strong
        • wives most likely to have last done washing up
        • husbands most likely to have last washed car

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