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Conjugal Roles: Roles in marriage - Coggle Diagram
Conjugal Roles: Roles in marriage
Domestic Labour in the Home
Young and Wilmott (1957)
working class part of London
Marital/conjugal roles were segregated
Men primarily wage earners and head of household
Women exclusively responsible for child and housekeeping
Men spend leisure time with other men
Women have little to none power and decision makng
Domestic division of labour and power relations were unequal
Young and Wilmott 1973
Working class and middle class households
radical change in attitudes
Conjugal roles more likely to be jointly shared
Marriage was egalitarian
egalitarian: the principle that advocates equal rights and opportunities
Change due to
Greater educational and job opportunites
Women working in greater numbers
Decision making in the Home
Edgell's Study of Professional Couples (1980)
Very important decisions = man
Finance
Jobs
moving house
important decision= mostly joint, rarely made by wives alone
Children's education
Vacations
Less important Decision = women
Shopping
home items
Hardill et al. (1997)
No major change, men dominate key decision
Leighton (1992)
Unemployed husbands have less power, because women has more wealth
Emotional Work in the Home
Beyond housework
Feminists argue that equality should include emotional well being, not just physical tasks
Duncombe & Marsden (1995)
Women perform a triple shift
Maintaining relationships between fathrees and children
Supporting family members emotionally
planning celebrations and smoothing conflicts
Hochschild (2003)
Emotional work is taken for granted as part of gender role
Bermard 1982: Husbnads more satisfied in marriage, wives often fell lonely
Billman and Pixley (1997)
Unequal emotion work is a major cause of divorce in the UK
Lesbian couples and the gender scripts
Gillian Dunne (1997)
Traditional domestic roles persist due to gender scripts, ingrained norms that dictate gendered expectations in relationship
17 Lesbian couples w children
More symmetrical and egalitarian relationship
Shared childcare and equal career importance
But when one partner worked longer, domestic labour become unequal
Chris Carrington (1999)
Found that household task inequalities similar to heterosexual couple
Conclusion