gender roles

Question 1

ERSC (2013)

Answer 1

A womans work is never done
strain of housework, full time and childcare
responsibility is endless

Question 2

mcveigh- females still do most housework

Answer 2

8/10 women
only 1/10 men
13% males only do more then women

Question 3

dunne- lesbian lifestyles

Answer 3

lesbians dont have tradiotnal gender scripts
egulatarian RS
40:60 split of housework

Question 4

Gershury-cant earn enough
due to pressure of staying home

Answer 4

have to reduce time on unpaid work to increase paid hours

Question 5

Sue sharpe

Answer 5

1974- housewives
1996- focus on careers

Question 6

anne oakely- socilasisation

Answer 6

girls play w kitchen and dolls
boys play with cars and bricks
media and tv create roles
woman- expressive
men- breadwinner

Question 7

Patsons- biological basis

Answer 7

woman have to be attentive to emotional needs for fam
men have to be sucessful for fam
segregation

Question 8

how can you critcise parsons

Answer 8

unlikely a biological basis
but actually due to environemt
femnists- patriarchal society benefit men

Question 9

harkness- woman have greater burden (2005)

Answer 9

woman do most housework and look after kid
father not very likely to be in childcare
housework, childcare and full career
3/4 dual earners now

Question 10

duncame and marsden- woman have greater burden

Answer 10

longer term RS held by women most the time not men
woman emotioanlly - listen and understand
and mediators and expressive (emotional work)
tripe shift- resp for paid, domestic labour and childcare

Question 11

oakley- men not doing more

Answer 11

fathers spent 25% of time in childcare - once a week and would do only fun aspects such as go park

Question 12

ferri and smith (support oakley)

Answer 12

woman still hv main resp at home
childcare was 4% of a mans main career at the households looked at

Question 13

evaluate ferri and smith

Answer 13

woman pay others to do their work(commercialisation)
duncombe and marsden claim woman do triple shift, emotional work and paid work

Question 14

gershury (1994)- men doiing more,
(change in womens posititon)

Answer 14

woman do full time led to more shared housework
woman who worked did less
husband had to do more
but still divison in the tasks they did

Question 15

evaluate gershury
(link to silver)

Answer 15

jus bc women had to do less doesnt mean men did much
silver- housework became comercialised

Question 16

young and will mott - men doing more
(families become more symmetrical)

Answer 16

more symmertical fmailies
men help w childcare and women can work
change in woman position

Question 17

evaluate young and will

Answer 17

only seen in ldn- not representative
ferri smith- woman still hv burden of being resp on childcare and paid work
mcveigh- 8/10 women still do more housework

Question 18

working mothers - khanum

Answer 18

work part time bc of childcare
feel need to work twice as hard
leaving guilty for leaving kid behind
may have to stay extra hrs after work

Question 19

edgell (finance and decision making)

Answer 19

woman mainly were responsibile for home deco and furnishing
woman less say on finances e.g taking out loans
woman still focus on major housework
less than half of working women responsible for finances
independence- own bank acc
men- more likely to take out a loan
women- pressure to use money on childcare