SINGLEHOOD
- Created by: LaurenKSmith
- Created on: 14-04-16 13:49
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- Singlehood
- Living alone out of choice
- amount of people living alone has increased from 12% households in 1961 to 29% in 2011
- many people living alone are elderly widowed women and divorced/separated men and women
- many people living alone are elderly widowed women and divorced/separated men and women
- Reasons for increase in singlehood
- expensive to buy/rent a home
- delaying marriage
- worried about commitment
- local universities and stay at home while studying
- boomerang generation - come to live at home after stydying
- emancipation of women
- seclarisation
- Reserach
- Anthony Giddens (1996)
- said living alone increase and become a 'valued option'
- Sue Sharpe (1994)
- Girls in the 1970's concerned with love, marriage, husbands, children, jobs and careers in that order. In the 1990s more concerned with jobs and careers
- Wilkinson (1994)
- 'Genderquake' - changing attitudes and aspirations of women, no longer prioritise marriage
- Legislation
- The Equal Pay Act 1970
- The Equality Act 2010
- Anthony Giddens (1996)
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