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Gender roles and Relationships Flashcards

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What did Elizabeth Bott (1857) study?

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The roles that men and women play in the family unit

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What did Bott refer to the roles as?

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Conjugal roles
2 types: Joint and segregated

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What are joint conjugal roles?

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Where couples share tasks such as housework, childcare and spend their leisure time together

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What is segregated conjugal roles?

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Where couples have separate roles

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What did Young and Wilmott (1973) suggest?

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  • Take a march of progress view
  • See family life is gradually improving for all its members
  • Suggested the symmetrical family
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What is the symmetrical family?

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  • Similar roles between men and women
  • W now go out to work
  • men help with HW & CC
  • Couples spend their leisure time together
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What did Wilmott and Young study?

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  • Found the SF was more common among younger couples, those geographically and socially isolated and the more affluent
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Why have they seen a rise in symmetrical families?

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  • Changes in position of women
  • Geographical mobility
  • New technology
  • Higher standards of living
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What is the feminist view of housework?

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Argue that little has changed and men and women remain unequal in the family

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Why does Ann Oakley criticise Young and Wilmott’s view?

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Argues it’s exaggerated and their evidence was hardly convincing

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What did Oakley find in her research on housewives?

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  • Only 15% of husbands had a high level of participation in HW
  • Only 25% had high participation in CC
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What did Mary Boulton (1983) find?

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Found that fewer than 20% of husbands had a major role in CC

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What is the dual burden?

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  • Fem & Smith (1996)
  • Paid work outside the home & unpaid domestic work
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What is the triple burden?

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  • Duncombe & Marsden (1995)
  • Paid work outside home & unpaid domestic work & emotional work for immediate and extended family members
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What did Gershuny (1994) find?

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That W working FT is leading to more equal division of labour in the home

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Man-yee Kans case study

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  • W in high careers do less HH chores than those in lower paid work
  • Every £10,000 increase in a W wage reduces time spent doing HH by nearly 2hrs
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Arber & Ginn case study

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Found better paid MC W were able to buy commercially produced products and services

18
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What did Crompton and Lyonette (2008) identify?

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2 diff explanations for the unequal division of labour: Cultural and material

19
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What is the cultural explanation for unequal division of labour?

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  • Determined by patriarchal norms and values that shape gender roles
  • Equality will only be achieved when norms about general roles are changed
20
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What is the material explanation for unequal division of labour?

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  • W generally earn less than M which means that it’s economically rational for W to do more HW & CC
21
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What did Pahl & Volger suggest?

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  • 2 types of financial control: pooling and allowance system
22
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What did Edgell (1980) study and suggest?

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  • Studied professional couples and how they made decisions
  • 3 diff type of decisions made which were made by diff person: very important, important and less important
23
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What did Laurie & Gershuny find about great equality in financial control?

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  • By 1995 70% of couples said they had an equal say
  • However it was high earning women
24
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How many murders involve a partner or ex-partner?

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More then 2/3

25
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What is the estimate of men and women suffering from domestic violence?

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1 in 4 women
1 in 6 men

26
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How many assaults are committed by men against their female partners?

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89%

27
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How many people are killed each year by a current or former partner?

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150 people and 80% are women

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How many victims do not seek help because they are afraid the violence will get worse?

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2/3

29
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How many serious domestic violence incidents are reported to the police?

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1/4

30
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How many domestic violence incidents that have been reported resulted in conviction?

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1 in 20

31
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How many women have been raped?

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1 in 4

32
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How many rapes are not reported to the police?

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95%

33
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How many roses take place in the home of the victim?

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3/4

34
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When was rape within marriage seen as a criminal offence?

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1991

35
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What do radical feminists say about domestic violence?

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For men to exercise their patriarchal power, to control and intimidate women and to keep them in a state of submission

36
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What do Dobash and Dobash argue abt make violence against women?

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  • The W’s subordinate role and unequal power is enforced and maintained and that it’s tolerated and reinforced by political and cultural institutions

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