The idea that women have to take on paid employment aswell as unpaid domestic labour.
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What is the 'Triple Shift'?
The idea that women have to take on paid employment, domestic labour, and emotional family work such as childcare.
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Give three effects of domestic work on women's careers.
Women working part time; Women are seen as unreliable by potential employers; Missed bonuses and promotions; Sacrificing jobs/careers for their family.
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Name the two main explanations for the divisions of labour.
Cultural / ideological explanation and the material / economic explanation
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Explain the cultural explanation of the division of labour.
The division of labour is determined by patriarchal norms and values that shape the gender roles in our culture.
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Explain the material explanation of the division of labour.
The fact that women generally earn less than men means that it is economically rational for women to do more housework and childcare while men spend more of their time earning money.
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Name the two main forms of money management.
The allowance system and pooling.
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Explain the allowance system.
Where men give their wives an allowance out of which they have to budget to meet the family’s needs, with the man retaining any surplus of income for himself.
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Explain pooling.
Where both partners have access to income and joint responsibility for expenditure, for example, a joint bank account.
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Explain the information hierarchy.
Postman argues that childhood emerged as a separate status along with mass literacy, from the 19th century onwards. This is because the printed word creates an information hierarchy: a sharp division between adults and children.
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What is the Bourgeoisie?
The name Karl Marx gave to the dominant class (ruling upper class) who own the means of production in capitalism.
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What is the proletariat?
The term used by Karl Marx for the working class in capitalism.
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What is capitalism?
Economic system seen by Marxists as centered on the oppression of the working class, through their exploitation position of creating all the wealth, but since they do not own the means of production, they receive only a fraction of its value as wages
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What is false class consciousness?
The proletariat remain ignorant (because of ideology) of their true oppressed class position and actually support the economic system of capitalism that is exploiting them.
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Who said that women are the 'Takers of sh*t'?
Zaretsky
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What is a liberal feminist?
Liberal feminists are concerned with campaigning against sex discrimination and for equal rights and opportunities for women.
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What is a Marxist feminist?
Marxist feminists argue that the main cause of women’s oppression in the family is not men, but capitalism.
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What is a radical feminist?
Radical feminists argue that all societies have been founded on patriarchy. Men are the enemy.
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Explain separatism.
Women must organise themselves to live independently of men.
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Explain 'political lesbianism'.
The idea that heterosexual relationships are inevitably oppressive because they involve ‘sleeping with the enemy’.
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Define the term 'social construct'.
An idea that is created and defined by society.
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List 3 inequalities amongst children
Gender, Ethnicity and Class
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List 3 inequalities between adults and children.
Neglect & abuse, control over children's space, control over children's time, control over children's bodies, control over children's access to resources.
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Who stated that 'Childhood is disappearing at a dazzling speed'?
Neil Postman (1994)
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Explain the march of progress view.
The position of children has improved dramatically in a relatively short period of time.
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Define 'immigration'.
The action of coming to live permanently in another country.
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Define 'emigration'.
The action of moving out of one's own country to settle permanently in another.
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What is the death rate?
The ratio of deaths to the population of a particular area or during a particular period of time. Usually calculated as the number of deaths per 1,000 people per year.
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What is the infant mortality rate?
The number of deaths under one year of age occurring among the live births in a given geographical area in a year per 1,000 live births.
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What is globalisation?
The growing interconnectedness of societies across the world with the spread of culture, consumer goods and economic interests across the globe.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
What is the 'Triple Shift'?
Back
The idea that women have to take on paid employment, domestic labour, and emotional family work such as childcare.
Card 3
Front
Give three effects of domestic work on women's careers.
Back
Card 4
Front
Name the two main explanations for the divisions of labour.
Back
Card 5
Front
Explain the cultural explanation of the division of labour.
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