couples Flashcards
(34 cards)
What are the key concepts of Parson’s in relation to couples?
- expressive and instrumental roles
What are the key concepts of Bott in relation to couples?
- seperated conjugal roles
- joint conjugal roles
What are the key concepts of Young and Wilmott in couples?
- march of progress
- symmetrical family
- egalitarian
What are the key concepts of Oakley in couples?
- the rise of the housewife role
What is Parson’s division of labour based on?
- biological differences
- women are more ‘naturally’ suited to the nurturing role
What is the March of Progress view of family life?
- gradually improving for all its members
- symmetrical family – the roles are now much more similar
- symmetrical family is more common amongst younger couples
What are the reasons for the rise in the symmetrical family?
- changes in women’s position in society
- more women working
- geographical mobility
- new technology and labour saving devices
- higher standards of living
What is Oakley’s feminist view of couples?
- men and women remain unequal within the family and women do most of the housework
- the fact men are seen as ‘helping’ women more does not prove symmetry. it shows that the responsibility of housework is still the womans
- even though more women work, the housewife role is still the woman’s primary role
What research supports the unequal division of labour?
- Warde – sex-typing of domestic tasks is still strong. Women are 30 times more likely to do the washing and men 4 times more liekly to wash the car
- office for national statistics – women spend on average 2.5 hours a day on housework, men spend 1
- boutlon – only 20% of husbands have a major role in childcare
What were the results of Man-Yee Kan’s study on the impact of paid work on housework?
- for every £10k increase in salary, there is a two-hour reduction in housework
What does Gershuny believe with paid work and housework?
- wives who work do less housework
What does Gershuny believe about equality within couples?
- there has been a gradual increase in equality between the sexes due to a shift in norms and values around paid work.
- It is seen as the norm for wives and mothers to work
What does Crompton believe about equality in couples?
- agrees with Gershuny however believes equality is linked to earnings rather than changing norms and values
What does Sullivan believe about equality in couples?
- men are taking on more traditionally female tasks
What is the dual burden?
- paid work
- unpaid housework
What did Feri and Smith’s survey show about childcare?
- Fathers took main responsibility for childcare in under 4% of families
What did Arber and Ginn say about childcare?
- full day childcare is essential for many women to stay in employment
What did Morris say about the dual burden?
- even when fathers are unemployed, they avoid the housework
- crisis of masculinity
What is the triple shift?
- paid work
- unpaid housework
- emotional work
What is Duncombe and Marseden ‘s view of equality in relationships?
- triple shift
What did Dunne find out about same sex couples?
- lesbian couples were more likely to
- share childcare and houswork equally
- ascribe equal importance to their careers
- view childcare positively
What does Dunne believe is the reason for the unequal division of labour?
- deeply ingrained gender scripts
How often does a woman die at the hands of her partner in the UK?
- office of national statistics – more than 2 every week
What are the 5 main types of abuse?
- physical
- emotional
- sexual
- financial
- neglect
