GENDER ROLES

What is Parson’s view on gender in the family?

gender roles are biological with women being expressive and men being instrumental

What are the criticisms of Parson’s view on gender in the family?

sexist, not applicable to all homes, marxists and femininsts think its oppresive

What are the benefits of Parson’s view on gender in the family?

all bases covered,

What does Elizabeth Bott say about gender roles?

there are two types, segregated conjugal roles and joint conjugal roles

When did Elizabeth Bott put forward her findings?

1957

When do Willmott and Young put forward their findings?

197

What do Willmott and young say about the family?

that symmetrical families are now common

What statistical evidence is their for the symmetrical family?

7 out of 10 women of working age now have jobs

What research methods did Willmott and Young use?

studied families in London and found the symmetrical family was more common in affluent or geogrpahically/socially isolated families,

what resaons are there for the symmetrical family?

changing women’s position in society, more women working, geopgraphical mobility, social mobility, new labour saving devices and higher standards of living

What are the criticisms of Willmot and young’s reseach methods?

bad research methods with vague questions and an unrepresentative sample

What does Anne Oakley say about the symmetrical family?

THE FAMILY IS NOT SYMMETRICAL AS MEN ARE SEEN AS ‘HELPING’ WOMEN

What percentage of men had a high level of participation in housework and also childcare?

16 and 25 (but only in the pleasurable aspects)

What does Southerton say about mothers, when?

Mothers are expected to organise family time (2011)

What does Warde say about the split in domestic tasks?

women are 30 times more likely to do the laundry and men 4 times as likely to wash the car

What does the office for national statistics say about time spent on houseework?

on average men spend one hour and women 2.5 hours

What does Boulton say about men and childcare?

only 20 percent of men have a major role in childcare

What sociologists all found that even in dual career families, women had more responsibility for domestic tasks?

Brayfield, Ferri and Smith, Man-yee Kan and Hochschild

What do McKee and Bell say about unemployed men, when?

they resist pleas from partners to do more housewok, 1986

What did the British social attitudes survey find out, when?

certain household tasks have becme more unequal than others, 1992

What do Rapaport and rapaport say about career women, when?

career women are still viewed as wives and mothers, 1970

What did David Mortley say about the views on the home, when?

women view it as a place of work, men as a place of leisure (1992)

What does Craig say about say about housework, when?

women do one third more housework than men due to the partnership and marriage penalty, 2007

What is the marriage penalty?

women in marriages find themselves then doing more housework, even if they didn’t want to, similar idea to partnership penalty