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Key Sociologists - Family
Gershuny (2008)
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What did Gershuny ask couples to do?
Keep a
diary
of amount of
time
they spent on
domestic
work and
paid
work
What did Gershuny find?
As women entered the
workforce
they had to
reduce
the amount of hours spent on
housework
Men weren't
adapting
quick enough to take their share of the
domestic
work -
lagged
adaptation