Gendered Roles
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- Created on: 14-05-17 19:32
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- Gendered Roles
- Sex
- Biological differences of men and women
- Gender
- Cultural & socially constructed differences between men and women
- Parsons (1955)
- Clear separate roles instrumental role and expressive role
- Both genders benefit as they are better at different things
- Clear separate roles instrumental role and expressive role
- Bott (1957)
- Conjugal Roles
- Separated
- Traditional gender separation- different tasks in the household
- Joint
- Equal sharing of tasks and leisure time spent together
- Separated
- Conjugal Roles
- Young and Willmott (1973)
- The march of progress
- Conjugal roles becoming equal
- Symmetrical family
- Men pulling their weight by doing more domestic jobs
- The march of progress
- Oakley (1974)
- No symmetrical family
- 15% husbands do housework, 25% do childcare
- Men gets rewarding tie with children whilst women have to do domestic work
- Women see housework as their responsibility
- 15% husbands do housework, 25% do childcare
- No symmetrical family
- Warde & Hethering (1993)
- wives 30x more likely to do the washing up
- Husbands 4x likely to wash the car
- Men only do female tasks when she isn't around
- Still a gender spilt in domestic work
- Sex
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