Division Of Domestic Labour Power In The Family Flashcards
(16 cards)
Parsons instrumental and expressive roles
Instrumental role husband is geared towards providing financial resources as the breadwinner
Expressive role wife geared towards providing warmth security and emotional support family socialization meets families emotional needs homemaker
Evaluation of instrumental an expressive roles
Negatives
Out of date doesn’t take into account most women work
Sexist feminists are highly critical women’s place is in the home feel women should be free to make their own choices
Bott joint and segregated conjugal roles
Segregated conjugal roles activities and a couple that men and women do separately men work women stay at home leisure time also apart from each other
Joint conjugal roles couples share and tasks within the family like housework childcare and leisure time
Evaluation of bott
strengths
Supposing evidence Walmart on young found evidence men were breadwinners whereas women were full-time child carers and housewives showing segregated conjugal roles
Weaknesses
Out of date sorry it doesn’t take into account now most women work
Wilmot and young the symmetrical family
March of progress view things have gradually improved for all members of the family the symmetrical family is a nuclear family and one where men and women’s roles have become similar and balanced best partners work do housework and have leisure time caused by changes in women’s positions at work
Evaluation wilmot and young
Strengths
Have supporting evidence
Weaknesses
Overestimated symmetry
Oakley
Highly critical of willmott and young even though in the 20th century more women worked being the homemaker were still their primary role and women of low-paid jobs that were an extension of housework like nursing and childcare jobs
Impact of paid work on the division of labour
Women nail participate much more and paid work interested in whether this is caused meant to do more duties that are domestic and whether there’s been a much a progress or whether women have a dual burden or double or shift
Causes of gender differences in domestic division of labour
Ideological / cultural explanations-idea that patriarchal norms and values shape gender roles
Material explanations-this is the idea that men on average earn more so it’s financially more viable for women to be more involved with the expressive role
Supporting evidence for cultural explanations Morris
Found the unemployed man did not compensate by doing more housework because they’re masculinity was already threatened by not having a job doing housework would only emasculate them further
Decision making power
Who makes the most decisions in home would suggest who has the most power
Edgell study 38 medal class couples asked who made decisions and how important they were women made more decisions than man but were of less important like interior decoration or children’s clothes men made more powerful decisions like moving house
Financial control and power
Most common arrangement was husband controlled pooling and this is where money was shared but husbands controlled spending or why control pooling least common arrangement women controlled the finances
Physical power
Domestic violence is one way in which power can be expressed in a relationship evidence for men having more power British crime survey domestic violence makes up one six of all violent crime
Ideological explanations of physical power
Feminist belief society’s patriarchal and that domestic violence is inevitable with men expressing their dominance and power over women with violence further evidence of patriarchy
Material explanations for physical power
Poor families live in overcrowded conditions and have more financial worries this causes higher levels of stress reduces the chance of stable caring relationships and can spill over into domestic conflict
