Domestic Division Of Labour Flashcards
(22 cards)
What does Domestic Division of Labour refer to?
Chores completed around the house such as cleaning, laundry, cooking, DIY and gardening.
What is the Instrumental Role in the context of domestic division of labour?
The rational male role that is the breadwinner of the family and the disciplinarian of the family.
What does Decision Making in the family encompass?
Ways families determine how decisions are made, including financial and life-changing decisions.
What is the Expressive Role in domestic division of labour?
The emotional and caring role usually carried out by the female in the family, including child care and domestic labour.
What is the March of Progress View according to Wilmott and Young?
Families are becoming more equal and democratic, moving towards joint conjugal roles.
What is the Allowance System in decision making?
According to Paul and volger
Men give wives a certain amount of money for family expenses, with all excess belonging to them.
What does Pooling refer to in family finances?
All money goes into a central pot with joint responsibility for expenditure.
According to Edgell (1980), who makes very important decisions in the family?
Men make very important decisions.
Women make day to day decisions
What percentage of couples reported having equal say in family decisions by 1995 according to Laurie and Gurshunny (2000)?
70% of couples.
What do feminists argue about decision making in families?
It isn’t linked to money but to cultural expectations of a patriarchal society.
What factor has contributed to changing domestic roles
Economically active women/mothers.
With women going out to work more, men need to h around
the house more in order for chores to get done.
How has the decline in the extended family affected domestic roles?
Couples need to be more equal due to fewer family members available for support.
What does weakening gender identities imply for domestic labour?
Less pressure to conform to traditional roles.
What role does technology play in domestic division of labour?
New technology reduces the need for some traditional domestic tasks.
What is the impact of the commercialisation of domestic labour?
Growth in the domestic labour industry as families pay for tasks or hire help.
What did Wilmott and Young suggest about the rise of the Symmetrical Family?
Acceptance of the interchangeability of roles.
What evidence suggests that the level of change in domestic division of labour may be exaggerated?
Brayfield
Women still have major responsibility for domestic tasks even in dual career families
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What did the British Social Attitudes Survey (1992) reveal about household tasks?
Certain household tasks have become more equal than others.
What perspective did Ann Oakley provide on joint participation in domestic tasks?
Joint participation does not mean equal responsibility; men help their wives.
What did Craig (2007) find regarding women’s housework compared to men’s?
Women do 1/3 more housework than men due to partnership and marriage penalties.
How do same-sex couples compare to heterosexual couples in terms of domestic labour according to Dunne (1999)?
Gay and lesbian couples are more equal and symmetrical, but unequal earnings lead to unequal division.
What was Rapoport and Rapoport view on housework ?
career women were still viewed
as “wives and mothers”.
