Is the family symmetrical?
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- Created on: 03-05-17 08:34
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- Is the family symmetrical?
- YES - the family is symmetrical
- Geographical mobility and isolation
- They are more isolated from the extended family so they have more time to themselves
- There is not pressure to carry out the traditional roles that the elder relatives may push on them
- New technology and labour saving devices
- There are more machines that allow anyone to carry out household chores, e.g. dishwasher
- This means that anyone in the house can do it
- Gershuny - Women who had full time jobs did less domestic work.
- Women who didn’t work done 83% of the housework and women who were in a full time job did 73% of the domestic work.
- Gershuny - Women who had full time jobs did less domestic work.
- Silver
and Schor - Argue that the burden of housework on women has decreased and
led to the ‘death of the housewife role’.
- Because housework has become more commercialised by labour saving devices and also because more women work.
- Geographical mobility and isolation
- NO - the family is not symmetrical
- Segregated conjugal roles
- Ann Oakley - interviewed women about the tasks their husband did at home
- She concluded that out of all housework chores; 85% are women's work and 15% are men's work
- Housewife remains as women’s primary role – women in paid work forced into part time, low paid jobs
- Ann Oakley - interviewed women about the tasks their husband did at home
- Triple shift
- Duncombe and Marsden - Women are expected to do a triple shift
- Housework, paid work and emotional work
- Arber and Ginn
- Working c;*** women are unable to access a full day of childcare
- Therefore, they are trapped in a cycle of childcare and part time, low paid work
- Benefits men as they don't have the stress of work when they get home
- Duncombe and Marsden - Women are expected to do a triple shift
- Decision making
- Still the male who gets ultimate say in final decisions
- Hardill - Important decisions made by the man alone (or together in dual career couples).
- Pahl - Found most commonlly thatthe husband controls the pooling and has the dominant role in deciding how it is spent
- Least common was wife controlled: this is the least common where the wife controlled all the money.
- Still the male who gets ultimate say in final decisions
- Segregated conjugal roles
- YES - the family is symmetrical
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