gender roles and division of DL
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- Created on: 31-03-20 12:00
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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
- House work has become more commercialis-ed
- Silver and Schor
- March of Progress view of the 'New Man'
- Gershuny
- more women work full time
- resulted in more equal DL division in home
- more women work full time
- Sullivan
- analysed nationally representative data
- found men doing greater share of DL tasks
- analysed nationally representative data
- Gershuny
- 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
- Fisher et al.
- 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
- Morris
- 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
- higher levels of symmetry and egalitarianism in lesbian relationships
- Goldberg
- lesbian couples divided DL tasks equally
- Dunne
- 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
- Southerton
- 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
- Emotion Work and Triple Shift
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