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Labour within the home (Conjugal roles are roles that people have in…
Labour within the home
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The good housewife's guide supports the new right perspective that women should perform the expressive roles and men should fulfill the instrumental roles.
Housework is still predominantly a female task. In 2018, women claimed to do 60% more housework than men.
Wilmott and Young proposed the idea of a symmetrical family, where men can become more domestic and women can fulfil the role of being a breadwinner.
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Half of mothers, with children under the age of 5, are in work.
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On average, the more hours a woman works outside of the home, the more domestic works appears to be shared between men and women.
Because more women were working outside of the home, more men are having to say at home and act as a 'househusband'.
Technology changes have made domestic labour easier and less time consuming. This could explain why there has been an increase in the number of househusbands.
Ishii-Kuntz found that delayed childbirth cause househusbands to do more housework. This may be linked to the ideaa that women have careers and therefore have higher expectations of their husbands.
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EXAMPLE: A story of David Hornby, a stay at home dad, was shown in the metro. He claimed that "my issue is the misguided perception that dads are going above and beyond to simply raise their kids". This suggests that men's attitudes and roles within the family and home are shifting.
On average, men do 16 hours of unpaid work per week compared to 26 hours for women.
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Brayfield found that even in dual carer families, women had the responsibility of doing domestic tasks.
Rapoport and Rapoport found that 'career women' were still viewed by their partners and children as 'wives and mothers'. If men are simply working to 'help their wives' they are doing it for the wrong reasons.
Anne Oakley suggested that just because couples do things jointly, it does not mean they are doing things equally.
Because of the domestic burden, women have less leisure time than men.
David Morley says that women see the home as a place of work, whereas men view the home as being a place of leisure.
Hochschild found that full time working women spent 3 hours a day doing housework whereas men only spent a total of 17 minutes on housework.
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There are now 'cleanfluencers', such as Mrs Hintch. These people make money for posting images of cleaning on instagram.
Anthony Giddens said that women are increasingly seeking a 'haven in a heartless world' through greater emotional and sexual openness.
Mansfield and Collard found that newly married wives were deeply disappointed with the lack of emotional reciprocity in their marriages.