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Couples - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 1) Allowance System -> men give unemployed wives an allowance which they budget to meet families needs
      - 2) Pooling -> where partners work, have joint responsibility spending (joint bank accounts)
- - - - Patriarchal cultural norms shape gender roles. Women = domestic because it’s what society expects them to do. // equality will only be achieved only when attitudes, values and expectations change
      - Gershuny argues that couples who adapt to women working, gain a new norm of men doing domestic work
      - Kan -> younger men more likely to do domestic work
    - - Women earn less then men -> makes more sense for them to do domestic labour
      - If women earned the same, domestic labour should be the same
      - Arber & Ginn - women that wasn’t more were able to pay for people to do domestic work
      - Ramos - if women is full time breadwinner & man is jobless there’s an equal domestic labour
  - - - Dunne -> studied 37 lesbian couples w children and found a more equal DoL // uses gender scripts eg heterosexual relationships = different genders different roles. // lesbians = same genders more equal
- - - - Rise of symmetrical family is because of major social changes in the 20th century: higher living standard, labour saving devices, better housing, women working and smaller families.