The domestic division of labour
- Created by: aniakuchnia
- Created on: 02-05-17 17:23
View mindmap
- The Domestic Divisions of Labour
- Parsons: instrumental & expressive role
- Husband has the instrumental role- being the breadwinner
- Wife has the expressive role- geared towards emotional needs
- Roles are based on biological differences - which benefit both the sexes and wider society
- Bott: joint & segregated conjugal roles
- Segregated conjugal roles: separate roles of breadwinner and a homemaker with separate leisure too
- Joint conjugal roles: tasks are shared and leisure time is together
- Young and Willmott found this in their study of traditional working-class families in the 1950's
- Men findings: breadwinners, little part in family life, leisure with workmates in pubs
- Women findings: full time housewife, full responsibility for home and child care, helped by female relatives, and spent leisure with them
- Young and Willmott: the symmetrical family, march of progress view
- See the family as gradually improving
- Roles between men and women are much more similar
- Women go out to work (but may be part-time)
- Men help with housework and childcare
- Spent leisure time together
- More common among younger couples who are geographically and socially isolated and better off
- Reasons for the change includes:
- Change in the position of women
- Geographical mobility
- New technolog and labour-saving devices
- Higher standards of living
- Oakley: the rise of the houswife
- Inequality has come from patriarchy
- Women hold a subordinate and dependent role in family and society
- Criticises Young and Willmott's exaggerated claims
- The husbands helped once or twice, but this isn't symmetry
- Men only helped with pleasurable parts of childcare for example
- Boulton (1983) fewer than 20% of men have a maor role in childcare
- Warde and Hetherington (1993
- Men would only carry out female routine taks when partners are not around
- However, there is a small change among younger men
- Inequality has come from patriarchy
- Parsons: instrumental & expressive role
Comments
No comments have yet been made