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Mind Map by WhisperedWishes, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by WhisperedWishes
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The domestic
division of labour
- Young and Willmott (1973)
suggested the symmetrical
family had arrived.
- Shared and
similar
conjugal roles.
- Shared and
similar
conjugal roles.
- Young and Willmott said
72% of husbands help
around the house.
- Anne Oakley (1974)
refused this claim.
- Husbands only had to
perform one household
chore a week to count as
'helping around the house'.
- Husbands only had to
perform one household
chore a week to count as
'helping around the house'.
- Oakley's research was
based on interviews
with 40 women with
children under 5.
- Wives saw housework
as their responsibility and
received little help from
husbands.
- Wives saw housework
as their responsibility and
received little help from
husbands.
- More recent research
confirms that housework
and childcare remain
primarily the responsibility
of the woman.
- This is referred to as the triple shift.
- Women doing both paid and
domestic work, and providing
emotional care.
- Women doing both paid and
domestic work, and providing
emotional care.
- This is referred to as the triple shift.
- Women usually underestimate how
long they spend on domestic labour
because they are often performing
two jobs at once.
- Men tend to
overestimate so it
seems like they
did more.
- Many female jobs (such as cooking)
are time specific whereas male jobs
(such as gardening) aren't.
- Men tend to see themselves
as 'breadwinners' rather than
an emotional counterpart.
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