Gender Roles, Domestic Labour Flashcards
1
Q
Segregated conjugal roles
A
Clear division and separation between gender roles
2
Q
What are the causes for growing equality?
A
Improved living standards at home Improved status and rights of women Increase of women in paid employment Commercialization of housework Weaker gender identities
3
Q
Criticisms modern marriages and cohabitation more equal
A
Not much evidence more symmetrical
Housework still predominantly womens work
No modern country where men do more domestic work
4
Q
How women have inequalities in enployment
A
Seen as unreliable when have children or could have children
Look after children or sick elderly
More likley to move with husbands promotion
