Gender Inequality: Family

Question 1

Gender Inequality: Family
Socialisation

Answer 1

MEN & WOMEN ARE SOCIALISED DIFFERENTLY

Oakley - Verbal Appellations / Canalisation / Manipulation / Different Activities

UNICEF Publication - Gender socialisation intensifies during adolescence & contributes to gender inequality in education / environment / income / empowerment

Question 2

Gender Inequality: Family
Conjugal Roles - Theorists

Answer 2

Oakley
Duncombe & Mardsen
Seedat & Rondon
Gershuny

Question 3

Gender Inequality: Family
Conjugal Roles - Oakley

Answer 3

Women become depressed when @ home all day & men worry about their family while @ work

Question 4

Gender Inequality: Family
Conjugal Roles - Duncombe & Mardsen

Answer 4

TRIPLE SHIFT:
Women = responsible for childcare / household maintenance & paid work

Question 5

Gender Inequality: Family
Conjugal Roles - Seedat & Rondon

Answer 5

Cortisol levels women feel due to expressive roles:

• TLDR: Household stress affects women more than men due to double burden of paid & unpaid work

Women who perceive expressive role as stressful have higher cortisol levels & a slower recovery time of cortisol than women who report low stress levels to the unpaid work
- Underscores the importance of women’s subjective experience of unpaid work
- Sustained high cortisol levels = adverse mental health conditions; including depression

Question 6

Gender Inequality: Family
Conjugal Roles - Gershuny

Answer 6

Percentage of housework women do:

83% - not in work
82% - part time work
73% - full time work

Question 7

Gender Inequality: Family
Rational Choice Feminism

Answer 7

Hakim - Preference theory

Women make rational choices in their lives

• Childcare is not an issue
  
  • Women choose when to have children through birth control

:( - Breugel: Hakin caricatures feminine ideas to support her argument
: Hakim deliberately understates the complexity of feminism