conjugal roles housework and child care

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what are conjugal roles?
roles of the husband and wife within marriage
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2 types of conjugal roles
segregated conjugal roles. roles of men and women are different. husband-breadwinner women-domestic tasks. joint conjugal roles- men and women doing paid work and both doing domestic tasks.
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the symmetrical family
young and willmott claimed joint conjugal roles were more consistent in the symmetrical family. they found a move towards greater equality within marriage in that wives were not going to work and husbands were doing domestic tasks.
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anne oakley
she heavily criticised who notes that in young and willmotts research a family was regarded as symmetrical if the husbands did any housework at least once a week. this hardly represented equality within households.
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she found
high levels of men had participation in housework and child care, only 15% of men contributing significantly to the housework and 30% to childcare.
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child care mary bouton
argues that who does which task does not adequately represent the burden of responsibility within households. she argues that even when men help more it still mother who take the main responsibility for children.
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gershuny
he found there had been a gradual shift towards men doing a higher proportion housework bug in gh 1997 women continued to do more than 60% of the domestic work
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2 types of conjugal roles

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segregated conjugal roles. roles of men and women are different. husband-breadwinner women-domestic tasks. joint conjugal roles- men and women doing paid work and both doing domestic tasks.

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the symmetrical family

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anne oakley

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she found

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