Gender Roles Flashcards

Question

Studies on Cultural Explanation

Answer 1

Future Foundation (2000) m mem & women claim to do more&less hw than p's = gen shift Brit Soc Attitudes Survey (2013) less than 10% under 35 agree w/ trad div of labour = 30% 65+ = LT change Dunne (1999) lesbian couples have m equal relas = X hetero gender scripts

Answer 2

if women join labour force & earn as much as man dom work m likely to be equal but in 7/8 HHs women earn less - m likely to work part-time Crompton (1997) argues no prospect of equal divison if depends on econ equal

Answer 3

Kan (2001) for every £10k per year more a women earns she does less hw per week Arber & Ginn (1995) better paid MC women able to buy in goods & services to red amount of dom work have to do Ramos (2003) if man = unemploy does as much dom work as woman Sullivan (2000) fulltime work red dom lab m than parttime

Answer 4

**Edgell (1980)** reviewed MC couples - men have control over DM that both see as NB & women over minor ones - linked to men earning m **Pahl (1989&93)** in 100 dual income fams men m likely to control pooling & how spent **Weeks (2001)**pool into joint account but have some in personal account so = some control **Smart (2007)** s-s couples X link control over money w/in equity - org based on what best for them

Answer 5

= inequals in - how resources shared out, who controls income, who has power to decide how spend Barrett & Mclntosh (1991) men gain m from women's dom work - give fin sup = unpred/has strings & men make NB £ decisons

Answer 6

Kempson (1994) in low income fams women deny own needs - don't go out, eat less & skip meals many don't have access to HH resources, see spending on self as wrong, even in higher income HHs many in pov bc of unequal sharing

Answer 7

Pahl & Vogler (1993) = 2 main types of control over fam income allowance system - men give set amount to wives for spending on HH needs Pooling - joint access to £ & respon for spending = m common

Answer 8

Pahl & Vogler (2007) even when pooling occurs men usually make maj fin decisions Hardill (1997) 30 dual couples, NB decisions taken by man alone/ jointly - mans career = prior over womans Finch (1983) women's lives tend to = struc around husbands career

Answer 9

Laurie & Gershuny (2000) by 1995 70% couples had equal say in decisions - women who were high earning pros = m likely to have equal say - sups mat explan of inequal between couples

Answer 10

pooling X always mean equality - who controls, do they contribute equally, if earn dif amounts but contrib same is it equal keeping money sep X = inequal - cohab = less likely to pool - but m likely to share dom tasks equally Nyman (2003) to understand equality need to understand money meaning for each indu & couple

Answer 11

Smart (2007) some gay/lesbain couples don't care who controls money - happy to leave to other - didn't see as indicator of equality Weeks et al (2001) typical pattern in pooling some money for HH spending & sep for everything else

Answer 12

too widespread to be the work of a few - doesn't occur randomly - follows patterns women killed every 3 days by current/ex partner - dv every 6-20 seconds 570k reported cases in Uk every year

Answer 13

Women's Aid Federation (2014) accounts for up to 1/4 of all violent crime Crime Survey for Eng & W (2013) 2 mil ppl reported being vic of dv in previous yr Coleman (2007) women 4x m likely to exper intimate abuse Coleman & Osborne (2010) 2 women a week 1/3 of all murder vic killed by partner/ex partner

Answer 14

wives = slapped pushed beaten, raped & killd by husbands - rape in mar only illegal from 1991 - set off by challenge to male auth mar legits violence by conferring power & auth on men & depen on women

Answer 15

Crime Survey for Eng & W (2013) rela narrow gender gap of Dv vics - 7.3% women 5% men - still sig in terms of severity frequency & effects Walby & Allen (2004) women much m likely to be vics of multi incidents of abuse & sexual violence Ansara & Hindin (2011) women suffer m severe violence & control w/ m severe psycho effects - m likely to be afraid of partner Dar (2013) dif to count sep incidents may = constant/occur too often to count

Answer 16

understate extent of prob vics = unwilling to report - yearnshire (1997) women suffer ave of 35 attacks b4 report - Dar (2013) fear of reprisal / see as trivial police/prosc unwilling to record prosc - Cheal (1991) police X assume fam = priv X interfere, fam = good women = free to leave

Answer 17

patterns of DV = evidence of patri men = enemy, fam & mar = source of oppression - men dom w/ threat of dv = inevi in patri soc = way to control women - male dom of state institus expls why = reluctant to investi/ deal w/

Answer 18

Elliott (1996) not all men = agres & most = op to dv fail to expl female violence - CSEW (2013) 18% men have experienced of DV since age of 16 assume all women = equal risk funcs - fams work harmoniously PMs - ppl have m choice to leave & avoid Phillips (2003) women can abuse men too & male vics = ignored

Answer 19

Wilkinson & Pickett (2010) dv = result of stress on fam mems caused by soc inequal - low income leads to m stress & inabil to maintain stable caring rela = inc risk of violence

Answer 20

useful for showing how soc inequal produces stress & triggers violence & why = class difs doesn't expl why men m likely to commit

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