Topic 1- Couples- Sociologists

1. Identified reasons why police often don't investigate domestic violence (5)
4. Identified woman as responsible for organising and planning family 'quality time' (10)
5. Identified hierarchy of decision making, with more important financial decisions left to husbands (6)
7. Interviewed female victims of domestic violence, citing challenges to male authority as a major cause (12)
9. Found for every £10,000 a year a woman earns, she does 2 hours less housework per week (3)

2. Found wives are 30x more likely to have done the washing last, and husbands 4x more likely to have cleaned the car last (17)
3. Criticised Bethnal Green study as inaccurate; found men still do less work in households (6)
6. Identified 'instrumental' and 'expressive' roles based on biological differences between men and women (7)
8. Found lesbian couples have more symmetrical relationships due to absence of traditional 'gender scripts' (5)
10. Identified 'joint' and 'segregated' conjugal roles based on sharing of tasks and labour in a couple (4)

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