Gender roles& criticisms
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- Created on: 20-12-15 12:19
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- Gender roles & Criticisms
- Young& Willmott (1973)- Modern family is what they called a "symmetrical family"
- Less patriarchal
- Equally balanced partnership of equals
- Both partners involved in paid employment
- Change in domestic division of labour from segregated conjugal roles
- To balanced integrated conjugal roles
- WHAT CAUSES THESE APPARENT CHANGES?
- Improving living standards in the home
- Decline of close-knit extended family
- Less pressure from kin, easier to adopt new roles
- Improved status& rights of women:
- Increase in no. of women in paid employmemt
- Gershuny (2000)- Wives moved into PE= Less housework
- Kan et al. (2011)- Men justs doing masculine defined tasks
- Gershuny (2000)- Wives moved into PE= Less housework
- Commercialization of housework
- Consumer goods& services to help with reducing burden of houswork
- Silver(1987)- C taken away the drudgery& time-consuming aspects of houswork
- Weaker gender identities
- CRITICISMS: ARE RELATIONSHIPS EQUAL?
- Not much evidence that family is "symmetrical"
- Women still perform majority of domestic tasks
- Knudsen (2008)- Women perform two-thirds of all domestic work in the orld
- Traditional segregated roles still remain
- Young& Willmott (1973)- Modern family is what they called a "symmetrical family"
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