Couples Theorists

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Parsons
Instrumental and expressive roles. Clear division of labour based on biological differences between the sexes.
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Bott
Distinguished between segregated (separate) and joint (similar) conjugal roles.
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Young and Willmott
Identified segregated conjugal roles in W/C families in the 1950s. Found a trend towards joint conjugal roles and the symmetrical family in the 1970s.
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Oakley
Y+W's claims were exaggerated e.g. while most husbands helped their wives once a week, that could just men taking the children for a walk or doing the dishes once a week
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Boulton
< 20% of husbands had a significant role in childcare. Y+W exaggerated men's contribution by focusing on the tasks of childcare over the responsibilities.
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Warde and Hetherington
Strong sex-typing of domestic tasks. Husbands would only do 'female' household tasks when their wives weren't available to do them.
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Gershuny (1)
Full-time working women is leading to a more equal division of labour. Found that working women did less housework than non-working women.
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Gershuny (2)
Found that coupkes whose parents had a more equal division of labour were more likely to share housework equally themselves. Supports the cultural explanation.
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Sullivan (1)
Found a trend toward women doing less housework and men doing more.
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Ferri and Smith
< 4% of fathers took responsibility for childcare
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Dex and Ward
Fathers would often play with their young children, but would rarely care for them when they are sick.
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Braun, Vincent and Ball
3/70 families had the father as the main carer - most fathers were 'background fathers'
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Duncombe and Marsden
Women have to perform a 'triple shift' ofpaid worrk, housework and emotion work
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Southerton
The responsibility of organising the family's 'quality time' together usually falls to mothers
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Crompton and Lyonette
Identified two explanations of unequal division of labour and gender inequality: the material explanation and the cultural explanation.
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Kan (1)
Younger men tend to do more domestic work. Suggests a cultural shift, supporting the cultural explanation.
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Kan (2)
For every extra £10,000 a woman earns per year, she does two hours less housework per week. Supports the material explanation.
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Dunne
Lesbian couples tended to have a more equal division of labour as a result of a lack of gender scripts that are present in heterosexual couples.
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Arber and Ginn
Middle-class women are better able to afford labour-saving devices and assistance with housework and childcare, resulting in less time needed to carry out domestic tasks. Supports the material explanation.
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Ramos
In households where the man is unemployed and the woman works full time, both partners do as much housework as each other. Supports the material explanation.
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Sullivan (2)
Working full time rather than part time is the biggest indicator of how much domestic work each partner does
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Crompton
As women are much more likely to work part time, the prospect of equal division of labour is distant if it depends on economic equality.
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Barrett and McIntosh
Men gain more from women's domestic work than they give in financial support, this support is often unpredictable and comes with strings attached and men usually make the important spending decisions.
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Kempson
In low income families, women tended to deny their own wants and needs in order to make ends meet.
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Pahl and Vogler
Distinguished between the allowance system and pooling. Pooling is seen as more equitable, but P+V found that even where there was a pooling system, the man usually had more power in financial decisions.
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Hardill
Important decisions were either taken jointly or by the man alone. The man's career usually took priority over anything else when making important decisions such as whether and where to move house.
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Finch
Women's lives tend to be structured around their husbands' careers.
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Edgell
Very important decisions tended to be taken mostly or solely by the husband, important decisions tended to be taken jointly and less important decisions tended to be made by the wife alone.
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Laurie and Gershuny
70% of coules reported having an equal say in decision-making by 1995. High-earning, well-qualified women in professional careers were especially likely to have an equal say in decision-making.
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Nyman
Money has no fixed meaning - it means different things to different couples. Meanings assigned to money can thus reflect the nature of the relationship. (link to personal life perspective)
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Smart
Gay men and lesbians were less likely to attach any importance to who in the relationship conbtrolled financial matters. Greater freedom in same-sex couples as there aren't as many norms surrounding control of finances as in heterosexual couples
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Weeks et al
The typical pattern in households was pooling some money for household spending, while keeping separate accounts used for personal spending. Reflects a pattern of co-independence.
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Coleman et al
Women were more likely to have experienced 'intimate violence' across all four types of abuse (partner abuse, family abuse, sexual assault, stalking)
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Coleman and Osborne
Two women a week (1/3 of female homicide victims) were killed by either a partner or a former partner
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Dobash and Dobash
Violent incidents and abuse are a response to a perceived challenge of the husband's authority by his wife. Marriage legitimates this by conferring power on men and dependency on women.
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Walby and Allen
Women were ore likely to be victims of sexual assault and multiple incidents of abuse.
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Ansara and Hindin
Women tended to suffer more severe violence and control, and more serious psychological effects as a result.
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Dar
Counting separate incidents may be difficult as cases of abuse may be continuous or so frequent that they cannot be reliably counted by the victim.
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Yearnshire
Women suffer an average of 35 assaults before reporting violence to the police.
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Cheal
Police reluctant to record incidents - beliefs that the family is a private sphere, that it is a good thing and that individuals are free agents.
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Millett and Firestone (separate theorists)
The key division in society is between men and women as a result of all societies being founded on patriarchy.
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Elliot
Rejects the radical feminist explanation of domestic violence - not all men are violent and most men are opposed to domestic violence. Radical feminists also fail to explain abuse by women.
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Wilkinson and Pickett
Domestic violence is the result of stress on family members as a result of social and economic inequality.
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Ansley
Abuse is the result of capitalism. Alienated male workers vet their frustration at their exploitation on their wives. Women are 'takers of ****'.
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Distinguished between segregated (separate) and joint (similar) conjugal roles.

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Bott

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Identified segregated conjugal roles in W/C families in the 1950s. Found a trend towards joint conjugal roles and the symmetrical family in the 1970s.

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Y+W's claims were exaggerated e.g. while most husbands helped their wives once a week, that could just men taking the children for a walk or doing the dishes once a week

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< 20% of husbands had a significant role in childcare. Y+W exaggerated men's contribution by focusing on the tasks of childcare over the responsibilities.

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