The Domestic Division of Labour
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- Created on: 23-03-14 07:04
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- The Domestic Division of Labour
- Parsons (1955)
- Funtionalist
- Instrumental & expressive role
- Roles based on biological differences
- Benefits family's members & wider society
- The New Right agree
- Feminist view of housework
- Oakley (1974)
- Young & Wilmott's claims are exaggerated
- Found some evidence of men helping in the home, but no evidence towards a trend of symmetry
- Only 15% had high participation in housework
- Only 25% had high participation in childcare
- Men were more likely to take part in more pleasurable aspects of childcare (e.g. playing)
- Leaves women with more time for housework
- Boulton (1983)
- Fewer than 20% of husbands had a major role in childcare
- Child's security & well-being is almost always a mother's responsibility
- Future Foundation (2000)
- 60% of men do more housework than their father
- 75% of women do less housework than their mother
- Oakley (1974)
- Joint & Segregated Conjugal Roles
- Bott (1957)
- Segregated Conjugal Roles
- Male breadwinner and female homemaker
- Like Parsons' instrumental and expressive roles
- Leisure activities tend to be separate
- Joint Conjugal Roles
- Couples share tasks
- Spend leisure time together
- Symmetrical family
- Young & Wilmott (1973)
- Roles between husband and wife are more similar (not identical)
- Women work, though this may only be part-time
- Men help with childcare & housework
- Couples spend more leisure time together
- More common among younger couples, geographically isolated and more affluent
- Due to major social changes in past century:
- Changes in position of women
- Geographical mobility
- New technology (labour-saving devices)
- Higher standards of living
- Oakley: rise of housewife role
- Has become dominant role for married women
- Women who work are in low-paid work
- Often an extension of housewife role e.g. nursing, childcare
- Industrialisation led to the separation of paid work from the home
- Women were gradually excluded from the workplace
- This enforced women's subordination & economic dependence on men
- Housewife role was socially constructed, rather than being women's "natural" role
- This enforced women's subordination & economic dependence on men
- Women were gradually excluded from the workplace
- Parsons (1955)
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