Gender roles Flashcards
(4 cards)
1
Q
women hold less power
Feminist
A
Edgell
- Women are often expected to unsatisfying housework.
- Women earn less and are economically dependent on their husbands therefore giving men more say in descion making.
- forced to cooperate with what the male partner wants, only gets to make lesser decisions like home decor/chidrens clothes.
2
Q
Duncombe and Marsden - triple shift
Feminist
A
Duncombe and Marsden (1995)
- coined the term ‘triple shift’ refers to when women juggle caregiving, spousal duties, and professional obligations.
- amount of overall effort contributed to the family is significanty imbalanced, women put in conjugal + caregiving effort at home whislt men conisder this as leisure time.
3
Q
Willmott and Young - symetrical family
Functionalist
A
Willmott and Young
- argued that in 1973, families had become symmetrical.
- Rather than in traditional nuclear families where roles were segregated by gender, in modern families men and women both did paid and childcare work.
4
Q
Giddens - pure reltionship
A
Giddens
- coined term‘pure relationship’which emphasizes choice and commitment based on emotional fulfillment rather than traditional expectations.
