Women working & the domestic division of labour (10)
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- Outline & explain two reasons why women working may affect the domestic division of labour among couples (10)
- 1. Cultural reasons
- Women working helps to break the culture of a traditional division of labour.
- Gershuny: Couples are adapting to women doing paid work, establishing a new norm of men doing more domestic work.
- There is less stigma towards men doing more domestic labour & women doing less.
- The more hours of paid work a woman does, the fewer hours of housework she does
- Where the woman is the full-time breadwinner & the man is unemployed, both do equal amounts of housework
- Leading towards the Symmetrical Family (Young & Willmott)
- The "New Man" does more housework & participates in childcare. Particularly evident among younger men
- Leading towards the Symmetrical Family (Young & Willmott)
- Where the woman is the full-time breadwinner & the man is unemployed, both do equal amounts of housework
- Gershuny: Couples are adapting to women doing paid work, establishing a new norm of men doing more domestic work.
- Women working helps to break the culture of a traditional division of labour.
- 2. Economic reasons
- Women are earning more and are therefore able to afford labour-saving devices and childcare
- Arber & Ginn: Better-paid women can afford labour-saving devices & childcare, meaning they do less domestic work.
- Ev. The Dual Burden: Women now have to do paid work & domestic labour. Men have not actually taken on more domestic labour
- Arber & Ginn: Better-paid women can afford labour-saving devices & childcare, meaning they do less domestic work.
- Women are earning more and are therefore able to afford labour-saving devices and childcare
- 1. Cultural reasons
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