3.1 - Gender Roles Flashcards
What does the domestic division of labour mean?
Roles men and women play in relation to housework, childcare and paid work
Functionalists argue that we are moving towards ………….. marraige
Egalitarian
Two types of domestic set up according to Bott
Segregated conjugal roles
Joint conjugal roles
What are segregated conjugal roles?
Husband and wife have separate roles and different leisure activities (instrumental and expressive). WC couples
What are joint conjugal roles?
Housework and childcare is shared. leisure time is spent together. MC couples
What does Goldberg say about gender roles?
Men do domineering roles as they are strong (biologically rooted)
What does Wilmott and Young say about gender roles?
Families are now mainly nuclear and have symmetrical domestic set ups.
March of progress
Wilmott and Young created the ………… ….. …………….
March of progress
4 reasons why joint conjugal roles are normal
Women go to work
Rise of feminism
Geographically mobile from education success
Men do housework and childcare
Why does Oakley reject the symmetrical family?
Patriarchy is in families and women are still subordinate
Stats to support Oakley (2)
15% of husbands have a high level of participation in housework
25% of husbands have a high level of participation in childcare
Who proves that there is sex-typing of domestic tasks. Stats to prove this (2)
Warde and Hetherington
Women - 30x more likely to be the last person to have done the washing
Men - 4x likely to be the last person to wash the car
2 person who say that domestic labour is unequal and their proof
Dryden - women have major responsibility for housework
Elston - When both parents were doctors, mother took primary responsibility when child is sick
What does New Man mean?
Challenge to traditional man as being comfortable in more expressive roles
Why does Gershunny back up the idea of the new man?
1990s - Women were going to work and men did more housework / childcare. Women experience a duel burden.
