Symmetrical Family
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- Created on: 14-02-24 14:33
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- The Symmetrical Family
- Domestic division of labour - breadwinner and homemaker - likely to have separate friends and leisure activities
- March of progress - equally balanced roles - Young and Willmott support this view as families become less patriarchal
- Living Standards - Bott - joint conjugal roles
- living standards - labour saving consumer goods and better housing makes couples more home centered
- social mobility - decline in extended family and looser networks of kin - male and female partners mix and reduces pressure for couples to retain segregated roles
- women's rights means men are encouraged to view women on equal terms
- domestic labour - commercialisation of domestic labour means consumer goods are used to ease the burden such as washing machines and the delivery of groceries
- postmodernists - argue that couples pick and mix roles - weakening of traditional gender roles
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