Domestic Division Of Labour

Question 1

Domestic division of labour

Answer 1

The way that jobs and roles are shared between men and women in the home

Question 2

Instrumental role

Answer 2

Financially provides for the family, known as the breadwinner

Question 3

Expressive role

Answer 3

Being the homemaker (cooking, cleaning, childcare) and meeting the family’s emotional needs

Question 4

What does Parsons believe the division of labour is based on?

Answer 4

Biological difference, women are naturally suited to the nurturing role and men to that of breadwinner

Question 5

Who talked about conjugal roles?

Answer 5

Elizabeth Bott

Question 6

Segregated conjugal roles

Answer 6

The couple have separate roles based around gender and leisure activities tend to be separate

Question 7

Joint conjugal roles

Answer 7

The couple share takes such as housework and childcare and spend their leisure time together

Question 8

Where did Willmott and Young conduct their study?

Answer 8

Bethnal Green in East London

Question 9

What did Willmott and Young find in the 1950s?

Answer 9

A pattern of segregated conjugal roles in traditional working class extended families

Question 10

What did Willmott and Young find about men in the 1950s?

Answer 10

They played little part in home life and spent leisure time with workmates in pubs, often working in shipyards and docks

Question 11

What did Willmott and Young find about women in the 1950s?

Answer 11

They were full time housewives with sole responsibility for housework, cooking and childcare

Question 12

What view did Willmott and Young take in the 1970s in Bethnal Green?

Answer 12

A functionalist march of progress view

Question 13

What did W+M see family life as becoming in the 70s?

Answer 13

Equal and democratic, which a trend from segregated towards joint conjugal roles and symmetrical families

Question 14

How did the family become more symmetrical?

Answer 14

Women now go out to work, men now help with housework and childcare, couples now spend their leisure time together, they are more privatised

Question 15

How did labour saving devices contribute to the move toward a symmetrical family?

Answer 15

Made running the house much quicker as the housewife is no longer a full time job and this made men more likely to get involved in chores

Question 16

How has the changing position of women contributed to the symmetrical family?

Answer 16

The women’s liberation movement demanded equal pay and opportunities, more women working part/full time

Question 17

What percent of husbands did housework other than washing up during the course of the week?

Answer 17

72%

Question 18

What did W+Y claim the move from segregated to joint was because of?

Answer 18

Women breaking ties with their female kin and drawing the husband into the family more

Question 19

Oakley criticism of Willmott and Young

Answer 19

It may sound impressive that 72% of men did housework other than washing up but it was based upon one simple badly designed question. She found only 15% of husbands had a high level of participation in housework

Question 20

Warde and Hetherington

Answer 20

The sex typing of domestic roles still exist, with wives more likely to wash the clothes and husband more likely to wash the car

Question 21

How much more likely are women to be the last person to have done the washing according to warde and hetherington?

Answer 21

30x