Family couples
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The domestic division of labour -
functionalists - Parsons
- The best way to organize a family is the expressive role and instrumental role (Male).
- This is functional for the family - The new right agrees.
The March of Progress -
Roles becoming more equal:
segregated conjugal role: Traditional expressive and instrumental roles.
Joint conjugal role - couples share domestic tasks and labour
The symmetrical family - Young & Willmott
- More equal roles
- women goes out to work
- men help with housewok/childcare
- couples spend leisure time together
Why? Major social change - higher living standards, technology, better housing, women working, smaller families.
Feminism - Women decline the view of the march of progress. DUAL BURDEN. Women still do twice as much - British social attitudes.
- Family is still patriarchal
- Oakey found no evidence of symmetrical family - Young and Willmott exaggerate.
- Mothers take responsibility for children's wellbeing
- Men held a provider ideology
- Women took responsibility for organizing family quality time.
- The triple shift - Duncombe and Marsden - emotional, paid, domestic labor
Explaining the gender division of labour -
1.The cultural or ideological explanation - patriarchal norms socialize women into doing a domestic role. But this is changing:
- Kan founder younger men do more housework
- British social attitudes found a long term change in…
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