Couples
- Created by: Jade Clements
- Created on: 06-04-15 18:50
Gender Roles
What we expect from men and women within the family unit
Instrumental role
(Men breadwinner) achieving success at work and providing financial support to the family
Expressive role
(Women home maker) the caring role of the home who does the domestic tasks
Segregated conjugal role
Man and woman have different role and spend leisure time apart
Integrated conjugal role
Both do unpaid and paid work and spend most of their leisure time together
March of progress
The assumption that there has been a move from segregated to integrated conjugal role
Patriarchal
Men are dominant over women
Dual burden
Doing both paid and unpaid work
Equality
Having the same rights, opportunities and expectations
Dual earner
Both patners go out to work and earn money
Emotional work
Work such as childcare, for example looking after a sick child
Division of labour
The roles of men and women in the home
Gender scripts
The social construction of gender, how the genders should behave and how they should appear.
Pooling
Both partners are able to financially contribute to the pot and therefore have more equal decision making
Allowence systems
Men may give women a certain amount of money for her to spend and budget within the family unit
Domestic violence
(Womens aid federation 2008) physical, physiological, sexual, and financial violence that takes place within a family, that forms patterns of coercive and controlling behavior
Parsons gender roles
Expressive and instrumental role.
Supported by Charles Murray
Bott (1975)
Segregated and joint conjugal role
Willmott and young (1973)
(Bethnal Green) slowly moving towards a more equal family. Joint conjugal roles becoming more popular, and the families becoming more symetrical
Mary Boulton (1983)
Fewer than 20% of husbands had a role in childcare
Man-yee-kan (2001)
Employment reduced female domestic tasks by 2 hours a week
Gershuny (1994)
Equality is passed down by parents
Suilivan (2001)
Analyse data through 75,87,97 found it trends that moving towards greater equality
Ferri and smith
Provides evidence of the dual, they found that the father took the responsibility of child care in less than 4% of households
Morgan
Emotional work: sick chikdren, handle the families adjustment
Dunne
Gender scripts
Ann Oakley
Criticised willmott and young and found that although men did some housework, there wasn't a move towards symmetry
Warde and Hetherington
Sex typing domestic tasks remained strong e.g. women were 30 times more likely to do the washing up and men 4 times more likely to wash the car.
Gaurdian housework gender equality
8/10 do more housework
1/10 men do equal
13% men do more
50% do 13+ hours per week
Barrett & Mcintosh
Men gain more from womens domestic work than give back financially. Financial support husbands give is unpredictable. Men make more decision making about spending on important items
Graham 1984
Women on benefits are better off
Pahl and volger
Pooling where both partners access income and joint responsibilities for expenditure. Allowence systems men giving wives allowence out of which have to budget and men get the surplus income
Kempston 1994
Women sacrificed their needs in order to accommodate the needs of their family
Hardill
In dual career professional couples, men still made the important decision whet made by men and the man's career took higher importance
Finch
Women lives tends to be structured by men
Dobash and dobash
Found that men are more likely to get violent if there authority is challenged
Yearnshire
On average a women will expereince 35 assaults before reporting it
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