Division of Labour

Question 1

What does Bott say about conjugal roles

Answer 1

There are two types;
segregated- expressive and instrumental
Joint conjugal roles; share domestic tasks and spend lot of leisure time together

Question 2

In 1950 what research did Willmott and Young carry out

What was different in 1970

Answer 2

In London, roles were segregated
-men dominated decision making and discipline, spent more time with other men beyond the family and women relied on men for income and important decisions.
-Women often experienced domestic violence from more physically powerful husbands.
Women can now work
men help with housework and childcare
couples spend leisure time together

Question 3

What societal changes caused this?

Answer 3

Women in the workplace
Access to contraception - no more unwanted expressive roles vanished

Question 4

However a sociologist says “what people say is more egalitarian than what they do” who says this and whats the research to back it up?

Answer 4

Ann Oakley
-sample of 40 housewives; found onky 15% of husbands had high levels of of participation in housework.
-Those who did left 70% of women dissatisfied
-Many of these housewives reported feeling lonely due to social isolation.

Question 5

Duncombe and Marsden ?

Answer 5

Emotion work
-triple shift
-women are more likely to be unhappy in a marriage
-lonliness

Question 6

Gender scrips who allocates this idea.

Answer 6

Gillian Dunne- studied 37 lesbian couples are found that there was still instrumental and expressive based roles within the relationship although same sex is typically assumed to be more semmetrical.
Capitalism not patriarchy