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The Domestic Division of Labour
- 'March of Progress' View = Sees
conjugal roles becoming more
equal in modern society.
- Bott - two types of marriages:
- Joint Roles = Couples
involve sharing
domestic tasks and
leisure time.
- Segregated Roles = Sharp
division of labour between
male and female.
- Joint Roles = Couples
involve sharing
domestic tasks and
leisure time.
- Young and Willmott: The SYMMETRICAL
FAMILY (1973)
- Couples spend their leisure time together; men have
become more home-centred and the family more privatised.
- Men help with housework and childcare.
- Most women now
go out to work.
- SOCIAL CHANGES during 20th century - higher
standards of living, labour-saving devices, better
housing, women working, and smaller families.
- Couples spend their leisure time together; men have
become more home-centred and the family more privatised.
- Bott - two types of marriages:
- HOUSEWIFE
ROLE - Oakley
- Rejects functionalism + 'march of
progress' view. Family IS patriarchal, NOT
symmetrical - Dual burden/triple shift.
- Young and Willmott
exaggerate men's role.
- Young and Willmott
exaggerate men's role.
- The housewife role is the primary role for women. It is the result
of industrialisation and factory production in the 19th century,
which led to the separation of paid work from the home.
- Women excluded from the workforce and confined
to the home. Men became the sole breadwinners,
resulting in women's economic dependence.
- The housewife role is socially constructed
and is NOT NATURAL (unlike what
functionalism and the New Right would say).
- Women excluded from the workforce and confined
to the home. Men became the sole breadwinners,
resulting in women's economic dependence.
- Boulton - we need to look at
who is RESPONSIBLE for tasks,
not just who performs them.
Less than 1 in 5 husbands
took a major part in childcare.
- Rejects functionalism + 'march of
progress' view. Family IS patriarchal, NOT
symmetrical - Dual burden/triple shift.
- Parsons
- The New Right
agree with Parsons
that this
biologically based
gender division of
labour is the best
way of organising
family life.
- Two Conjugal Roles
- Gender division of labour among couples is
'functional' for the family, its members, and wider
society. Division as biologically based - women are
naturally suited to nurturing, men to providing -
everyone benefits from this specialisation.
- Expressive
Role
- Instrumental
Role
- Gender division of labour among couples is
'functional' for the family, its members, and wider
society. Division as biologically based - women are
naturally suited to nurturing, men to providing -
everyone benefits from this specialisation.
- The New Right
agree with Parsons
that this
biologically based
gender division of
labour is the best
way of organising
family life.
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