ddl Flashcards
(20 cards)
What two roles does Bott speak about and definition
Segregated conjugal roles - Couples have separate roles (expressive and instrumental, leisure activities also separate)
Joint conjugal roles - Couple shares tasks and spend leisure time together
Willmott and Young research (1950)
Where?
What did they find (6 points)
Bethnal Green, London
Roles were segregated
Men spent more time out of the family
Men brought in money for the family
Women look after the kids more
Often experienced domestic violence from powerful husbands
Reliant on husband’s income
Willmott and Young - March of Progress (1970)
Families went away from segregated conjugal role and towards joint conjugal roles known as “symmetrical family”
Men now help with housework and childcare
Women work
Couples spend more leisure time together
What societal changes caused the move from segregated conjugal role to joint conjugal roles
Women in workplace so they fulfil the instrumental role which increases the household income.
Invention of white goods reduced domestic workload = men do more housework
Critique of Willmott and Young
Oakley - 15% of husbands did high level housework, those who did left 70% of women dissatisfied with the condition of the housework
Mumsnet - 81% of women were the sole organizer of emotion work
= still mostly women
How many more times are men more childcare per day since the 70s
8x
How much more percentage do men provide childcare during the week
25%
Giddens - Confluent love
Going into and starting in a relationship based on it meeting your needs so you have high expectations of relationships
Needs being met so you’re happy and not just marrying because you need to
Lagged Adaptation - Gershuny (Lib fem)
Women going into work faster than men taking on household chores but they’ll eventually be equal
= march of progress
Why did social attitudes change towards women?
They started working more so men help more with the childcare
Silver and Schor - Commercialisation of housework
Relieved the woman of much of her burden of housework as housework is easier
e.g washing machine, dishwasher, microwave
= More men likely to get involved as housework is easier
Oakley - Dual Burden
Women have to do both paid work and unpaid domestic work
Dunscome and Marsden - Triple shift
The emotional support given to the family plus the paid word and the unpaid domestic work
e.g Other people’s need before them, physical and verbal support, are the children and husband good
Impact on woman having sole responsibility for emotion work (5)
Tired because everyone depends on her
Put everyone else before her could lead to her feeling disregarded
May not have much free time
Less likely to remarry than a divorced man due to being unhappy whilst married
Express emotional loneliness
Inequality in the division of labour (3)
Socialisation - boys go to careers while girls focus is family
Men worked and women did the domestic responsibilities in household
Different toys as a child - boys play with trucks, soldiers while girls had barbies and dolls
Edgell - Husband or Wife (critiques symmetrical family Willmott and Young)
and findings
There are power imbalances within the family
e.g husbands either decide alone or has veto with very important stuff like moving house
Important stuff are joint decisions however wife rarely acting alone like education, holiday
Less important things are mostly wife such as house decoration, food
What does the dark side of the family include
Unequal family life
Domestic violence is 6th of all violent crime
What did Mirrlees Black find
Most reported victims are women of domestic violence, nearly 1/4 of women and on average before reporting they experience it 35 times
What is the dark figure
Amount of crime which are unreported and unrecorded in society
Dobash and Dobash
Found violent incidents started by a women challenging a man’s authority
