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Bott: Families Have Either Joint Or
Segregated Conjugal Roles
- Segregated Conjugal Roles: A married
couple that have clear and separate roles, the
male breadwinner and a female homemaker.
- Joint Conjugal Roles: A married couple that
share tasks such as housework and childcare
and spend leisure time together.
- Joint conjugal roles have come about in modern
family life as a result of changes in the position of
women through laws and reforms. There has also
been gradual change of attitude towards the
equal treatment of women in the family. However,
more reforms are needed to completely abolish
families with segregated conjugal roles.
- For example, equal pay act 1970.
- For example, equal pay act 1970.
- Criticism: black feminists would argue that
every woman's experience is different.
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