The Impact of Paid Work
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- The Impact of Paid Work
- Gershuny: the trend towards equality
- Wives who didn't work did 83% of housework
- Wives who worked part-time still did 82%
- Wives who worked full-time did 73%
- Longer the wife had been in paid work, the more housework her husband was likely to do
- Social values are adapting to how women are working full-time
- Even though men now do more housework, they still tend to take responsibility for different tasks
- Wives who didn't work did 83% of housework
- The commercialisation of housework
- Silver (1987) & Schor (1993)
- Burden of housework on women has decreased
- Poorer women can't afford expensive goods & services
- Commercialisation doesn't prove that couples are sharing chores equally
- Dual Burden
- Feminist: women have dual burden of paid work & unpaid housework
- Family remain patriarchal: men benefit both from women's earnings & domestic labour
- Ramos (2003)
- Where the man is not in paid work & his partner works full-time, his domestic labour matches his partner's
- Arber & Ginn (1995)
- Only m/c can afford full-day childcare
- W/c trapped in a vicious circle of childcare responsibilities & low-paid, part-time work
- Only m/c can afford full-day childcare
- Feminist: women have dual burden of paid work & unpaid housework
- Emotion Work
- Hochschild (1983): women are more likely to do jobs involving emotional labour
- Morgan (1997): uses the example of women caring for a sick child
- Duncombe & Marsden (1995): women are expected to work a triple shift
- Lesbian Couples & Gender Scripts
- Dunne (1999)
- Division of labour continues because of deeply ingrained 'gender scripts'
- In her study of cohabitating lesbians with dependent children, she found evidence of symmetry
- In lesbian relationships, households aren't linked to gender scripts
- Allows lesbians to create a more equal relationship
- Supports radical feminist view that heterosexual relationships are patriarchal, and women can only achieve equality in same-sex relationships
- Allows lesbians to create a more equal relationship
- In lesbian relationships, households aren't linked to gender scripts
- Where one partner did much more paid work than the other, time each partner spend on domestic work was likely to be unequal
- Suggests paid work has an important influence on division of labour, even in same-sex relationships
- Weeks (1999)
- Same-sex relationships offer more possibilities of eqality
- The division of labour is open to negotiation & agreement, and not based on patriarchal tradition
- Same-sex relationships offer more possibilities of eqality
- Dunne (1999)
- Man-Yee Kan (2001)
- Better-paid, younger, better educated women did less housework
- Gershuny: the trend towards equality
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