Domestic Division of Labour

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What does the Domestic Division of Labour (DDOL) refer to?
The roles men and women play in relation to housework, childcare and paid work
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What 2 roles does Parsons Distinguish Between?
Instrumental and Expressive roles
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What is an Instrumental role?
Mans role of a breadwinner, to provide for the family
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What is an expressive role?
Womans role to rear the children and do the housework
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What does Parsons believe about the Division of Labour between spouses?
It's rooted in biology, women are more suited to the nurturing role, as they have children they have a maternal instinct. Men are tough and better suited to the tough labour
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What type of thinkers are the New Right and Neo-liberals? Do they agree with parsons?
Conservative thinkers. Yes
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What are the criticisms for Parsons?
Women are now increasingly doing paid work, and men are doing more housework, but the old system benefits men more than women.
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What are Conjugal roles?
Roles within marriage
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What 2 types of conjugal roles does Elizabeth Bott distinguish between?
Segregated and Joint
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What is a segregated conjugal role?
Traditional nuclear family roles, Instrumental and expressive roles with leisure time spent separately, men with colleagues in pub and women with kin
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What are Joint conjugal roles?
Sharing tasks e.g. housework and childcare, leisure time is spent together
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What sociologists argue about the Symmetrical Family?
Young and Wilmott
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What do Young and Wilmott argue?
There's a march of progress, although the DDOL is traditional it's changing
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What does Sulivan argue for the March of Progress?
Trend towards women doing less domestic work and men doing more. Couples are becoming more privatised(Synoptic link-privatisation of families means that police and government are less willing to get involved with Domestic Violence issues)
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According to the British Social Attitudes Survey what % of men and women believed that men should be breadwinners and women housewives in 1984 compared to 2012? What does this suggest?
1984- 45% men and 41% women. 2012- only 13% men and 12% women. Suggesting that there's a decrease in the number of people who agreed with this view
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What change suggests there's a March of Progress?
Change in women's position in society
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What has helped change women's position in society?
Emancipation of women, Families being more Geographically mobile, Changes to technology, Higher Standards of living, access to contraceptive pills, access to divorce and allowed to vote
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How has increased Geographic mobility of the family changed women's position in society?
Smaller families so can move around UK to find jobs away from extended families and therefore away from traditional norms and values
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How have changes to technology help change women's position in society?
Invention of vaccum cleaner, microwaves, fridge/ freezer made men more likely to engage in domestic work as they're new gadgets, they also shortened the time taken to complete task
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How have Higher Standards of Living help change women's position in society?
1950s- postwar, better economies more money and more disposable income, so can access labour saving devices which encourages more symmetry
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How does affluence ( by women doing paid work) affect women's position in society?
Wife has her own money, so less dependent on male partner therefore has more power and authority so decision making is likely to be shared
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Who criticises Young and Wilmott?
Ann Oakley( Feminist ) -argues that they exaggerate mens contribution to domestic tasks.
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Who's research supports Oakley and what did it find?
Boulton- Fewer than 20% of husbands had a major role in childcare
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What statistics were found in terms of Sex-typing of domestic tasks?
Women were 30x more likely to do the dishes and men are more likely to wash the car
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According to the British Social Attitudes Survey, How are couples dividing tasks? How many hours of housework a week were men and women doing?
Couples still tend to divide tasks along traditional gender lines. On average, Men- 8 hours and Women 13 hours
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In what % of families did fathers take responsibility for childcare?
Less than 4%
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What % of fathers had involvement with playing with there children compared to taking responsibility for caring for a sick child?
78% playing and only 1% caring when sick
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Out of 70 families how many had the father as the main caregiver?
3
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What does Ann Oakley believe is the real reason for men playing with their children making them 'good fathers'?
That they do this simply to free up time for wives to do more housework
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What does Ann Oakley believe about the division of Labour?
That it is heavily sex typed. Men tend to do more DIY e.g. gardening and women tend to do cooking and cleaning.
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What did Boulton find?
Fewer than 20% of husbands had a major role in childcare
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What does Kan believe about the impact of paid work?
Better paid, younger more educated women do less housework per week
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What does Gershuny believe about the impact of paid work on DDOL?
That women in full time jobs did less housework, longer they work the more domestic work their husbands did
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What does Gershuny believe can influence a couple to be more equal?
couples with parents who had a more equal relationship, were more likely to share domestic tasks equally showing social values are gradually changing
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What evidence does Kan provide for the materialist explanation?
Younger men do more domestic work, most men claim they do more housework than their father and women less than their mothers
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What does Kans evidence suggest ?
There has been a generational shift
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What are Gershunys Explanations for the Generational Shift?
Gradual changes in societies values, as society changes so do values. Changes in Parental Models
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What does Crompton believe the Domestic Division of Labour is connected to?
Economic Factors
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What does Crompton argue about the DDOL and Earnings?
As women earn more, men do more work at home, however pay isn't equal (only 3/4 of what men earn) As long as there's unequal pay there will be an unequal DDOL.
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When does Crompton suggest the DDOL will be equal?
When equality is achieved with women and paid work
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What Evidence does Kan provide for the Material Explanation?
For every £10,000 a year a woman earns she does 2 hours less housework a week
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What Evidence do Arber and Ginn provide for the Material Explanation?
Better paid middle class women can invest in labour saving devices and childcare rather than spending time carrying out labour intensive domestic tasks
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What Evidence does Ramos provide for the Material Explanation?
When the woman is the full-time breadwinner and the man is unemployed he does as much domestic labour as she does
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What do Feminists argue occurs when women do paid work?
The Dual Burden
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What is the Dual Burden according to Ferri and Smith?
when women do paid work they still end up doing majority of Domestic Work
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What does Hochschild argue?
Women are required to preform emotional work in families
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What do Duncombe and Marsden Argue the addition of Emotional work leads to?
Women doing the Triple Shift of Housework, Paid work and Emotion work
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How can you summarise the Domestic Division of Labour in Heterosexual couples?
Evidence suggest there is some movement towards equality but women still perform the Triple Shift/ Dual Burden. Evidence is highly conflicted and findings from different studies show Paradoxical trends. More families conjugal-DDOL is still sex-typed.
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What are Gender scripts?
Expectations of men and women on how to behave and what to do
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What does Dunne argue about the Division of Labour?
It continues in Straight couples because of deeply ingrained Gender Scripts which doesn't seem to exist in Homosexual couples
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What does Dunnes argument link to?
Gershuny and the idea of parental models and societies values
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What does Weeks Argue?
That same sex relationships offer more opportunities to negotiate roles, due to the absence of the opposite gender, the roles are picked up and negotiated
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