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Gender rolls - Division Of Labour - Coggle Diagram
Gender rolls - Division Of Labour
Value of domestic labour
2013 'value of the mum' -
£31,627 p/y
- domestic labour figure
housework = modern invention
→ pre-industrial - everyone done house tasks & activities of cottage industries
Industrial rev. - men identified w/ world of production & wage labour
→ women confined to private sphere of
consumption & home
Parsons 1955
husband has
INSTRUMENTAL
role
→
bread winner
- financial support for family
Wife has
EXPRESSIVE
role
→
home maker
- primary socialisation of kids, meeting emotional needs
based on
biological diff
- women 'naturally' suited to nurturing role
→ DOL beneficial to men & women
Bott 1957
couples have segregated conjugal roles
male - breadwinner & woman - homemaker
→ leisure activities tend to be diff.
joint conjugal roles
- couple share tasks & spend leisure time together
→ down to network perceived through life
COUPLES
Wilmott & Young
see life as grad. improving for all members →
MOP VIEW
Symmetrical family
- roles much more similar
studied families in London - found SF more common in
younger couples, those geographically / socially isolated & those more affulant.
Reasons for rise in SF
○ changes in womens societal position
○ more working women
○ geographical mobility
○ new tech & labour saving devices
○ higher standards of living
Feminist view - Oakely
rejects MOP idea - men & women still unequal in family
men seen as 'helping' does not prove symmetry
→ shows respon. of HW is womens
Research findings
15% of husbands
had high level of participation in HW
25% in childcare
men take on more
pleasurable
HH tasks
Warde
- women 30x more likely to do washing & men 4x likely to wash car -
sex-typing
Office of NS - women spend 2.5 hours a day on HW - men = 1 hr
Boulton
- 20% husbands have major role in childcare