Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Couples
- The Domestic Division
of Labour
- Parons: Husband has
an Instrumental role
geared towards
achieving success, the
wife has an Expressive
role geared towards
Primary Socialisation
- Bott: Segregated Conjugal
roles: Couple share tasks
- Young and Willmott:
Symmetrical family
roles of husbands
and wives
- Women now go out to work part time /
full time | Men now help with the
childcare and housework | Couples
share leisure time together
- Changes in women's
position including married
women go out to work
- Geographical Mobility:
More couples living away
from the communities in
which they grew up
- New Technology & labour saving
devices. | Higher standards of living
- Feminist View of housework
- Reject the March of
Progress View. Little
has changed: Men and
Woman remain unequal.
- Women do most of
the housework
- This unequality
stems from the the
fact that family and
society are male
dominated
- Oakley (1974) criticises
Y&W's view that the
family is now symmetrical
- She argues that their
claims are
exaggerated and
doesnt see their study
as convincing
evidence
- Boulton found that 20%
of husbands had a
major role in childcare.
- Argues that Young and Willmott
exaggerate mens contribution by
looking at tasks involved in childcare
instead of responsibilities
- Warde & Hetherington
shows that sex- typing of
domestic tasks remains
strong
- Younger men no longer assume women
should do the housework and were more
likely to think they were doing their fair
share of housework
- Oakley The rise of
the housewife role
- Industrialisation and the
rise of factory production
in the 19th century led to
the seperation of paid
work from the home
- Women had intially been part of the
labour force, they were gradually
excluded from the workplace to the
home becoming the homemaker
- This enforced women's
subordination and economic
dependence on men. The
housewife role was socially
constructed.
- Rather than being women's "natural
role" as parsons claims
- Oakley's view, eve though the 20th
century saw an increase in the number of
working married women, the housewife
role is still the womans primary role
- The impact of paid work
- Man - Yee Kan found income
from employment age and
education affected how much
housework women did
- Gershuny found that wives who
worked full time did less domestic work
| wives who didnt work did 83% of the
housework.
- Wives who worked part time did 82% of the housework where as wives who worked full
time did 73% of the housework
- the longer wives had been in paid work
the more housework the husband did
- Couples who's parents had a more equal
relationship were more likely to share
housework between themselves
- Social values are adapting to the fact
that women are now working full time
More men are doing housework as well
as take responsibility for other task
- Sullivan analysis of nationally representative
data collected in 1975, 1987, 1997 found a
trend towards greater equality
- As men did more domestic labour
- There was an increase in
the numbers of couples
with an equal division of
labour and men were
participating more in
traditional, women's tasks