the emergence of the symmetrical family

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causes	improved living standards, greater geographical and social mobility and so less pressure from kin, improved rights and status of women, increased number of women working and post modernism.
critisms	Inequalities of labour in the household, 77% f women do all food shopping and food preparing. Ann Oakley says 72% of men claim they sometime offer help for remedial tasks. 3/4 of incomes are joint but women do not work. Elstons study - professional women still do the majority of housework.
effects of housework and childcare on womens careers.	Women get less pay. employees are reluctant to take special female courses. Gatrell said when women return to work after pregnancies they are subjects of prejudice. If the triple shift was paid women would earn 739 billion a year.

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