Domestic Division Of Labour Flashcards
Expressive role
Parson sees a clear division of labour between the spouses
Expressive
When the female is geared towards primary socialisation of the children and meeting emotional needs of the family
Instrumental role
The husband has an instrumental role he is geared to achieving success at work in order to provide for the family and he is the breadwinner
Criticisms of Parsons domestic division of labour
Young and Wilmott argue men are now taking a greater share of domestic tasks and more wives are becoming wage earners
Feminist sociologists reject this view that the division of labour is natural. They argue that it only benefits men.
What is the cause of domestic division of labour
parson believe it is because of the biological
Joint and segregated conjugal roles
Elizabeth bott distinguishes two types of conjugal roles that is roles within marriage
Segregates conjugal roles, where the couple have separate roles: a male breadwinner and a female house maker. Like Parsons instrumental roles leisure time is also separate.
Joint conjugal roles: where the couple share tasks and spend leisure time together
The symmetrical family
Young and Wilmott takes a match of progress view of the history of the family, they argue familys are becoming more equal and moving away from segregated roles and towards joint conjugal roles.
- husband and wives roles are more similiar
- women now go out to work full or part time
- men help with childcare and domestic chores
- couples now spend their leisure time together
Reasons for rise of symmetrical families.
- changes in women’s position including married women going out to work
- geographical mobility more couples living away from the communities in which they grew up
- new technology in labour saving devices
- higher standards of living
Feminist view on housework
They reject March of progress and say little has changed. They say it comes from the fact that society is male dominated.
- Anne Oakley critises Young and Wilmotts view. She says it is exaggerated. Young and Wilmott found most husbands help atleast once a week but this could be something very simple
- Oakley found 15% husbands helped housework and only 25% helped in childcare
- husbands only did the fun parts of childcare therefore mothers lost their reward
- boulton found 20% helped with childcare after Oakley she also argues the exaggeration
- hetherington found sex typing remained strong women 30 X most likely to have last done dishes and men 4x likely to have last washed car
The symmetrical family
Young and Wilmott takes a match of progress view of the history of the family, they argue familys are becoming more equal and moving away from segregated roles and towards joint conjugal roles.
- husband and wives roles are more similiar
- women now go out to work full or part time
- men help with childcare and domestic chores
- couples now spend their leisure time together
Reasons for rise of symmetrical families.
- changes in women’s position including married women going out to work
- geographical mobility more couples living away from the communities in which they grew up
- new technology in labour saving devices
- higher standards of living
Feminist view on housework
They reject March of progress and say little has changed. They say it comes from the fact that society is male dominated.
- Anne Oakley critises Young and Wilmotts view. She says it is exaggerated. Young and Wilmott found most husbands help atleast once a week but this could be something very simple
- Oakley found 15% husbands helped housework and only 25% helped in childcare
- husbands only did the fun parts of childcare therefore mothers lost their reward
- boulton found 20% helped with childcare after Oakley she also argues the exaggeration
- hetherington found sex typing remained strong women 30 X most likely to have last done dishes and men 4x
Match of progress view
- Gershuny argues women working full time is leading to a more equal division of labour. He found out ladies that worked out did less housework
- Sullivan found a trend to wears women doing a smaller share of domestic work and men doing more
- British social attitudes survey shows that the women were more likely to do things like laundry and men doing small repairs like in 1994
British social attitudes criticisms
They don’t measure the qualitative tasks men or women do.
- Allen found that women were more likely to do things like cleaning and laundry which are less satisfying
- They don’t say what tasks or how omd the yo end on it
Feminism gender division of labour case studies
Dex and warde 78% played with their child 1% cared for their sick child
Emotion work and triple shift
Horschild calls emotion work feminists have noted that women are often required to perform three functions
- Managing emotions
- taking responsibly of quality time
- southerton notes experiences of leisure time is diff
