Consequences of inequality

• Statistics-


  -1 incident of DV is reported to the police every minute

  -1/4 women have experienced DV
• Impact of family life on career and job prospects-

  -Fear that a women might become pregnant can limit promotion prospects

  -Women are seen as unreliable workers as their more likely to take time off if a child is unwell

  -Women are seem as less committed to their careers
• Issues what statistics on DV-

  Victims don't report DV to the police due to fear of reprisal, some abuse is difficult to prove (psychological and emotional) and it can be difficult to separate out incidents as it can be continuous
• New Right-

  Murray- DV only occurs in dysfunctional families
• New Right evaluation-

  DV isn't limited to W/C, too much focus on violence compared to other forms of abuse.
• Radical Feminists-

  -Dobash and Dobash- DV is evidence of the patriarchy and caused by challenges to male authority.
• Evaluation of radical feminists-

  Elliot- not all men are violent, men can be victims of DV
• Postmodernist-

  -Giddens- DV is caused by emotional intensity and family life. This increases isolation of nuclear family and leads to escalations of violence as there's a lack of people to vent to
• Post modernist evaluation-

  Not all families are abusive and we choose our family structures so we can have people to vent to who aren't extended family
• Marxist Feminist-

  Wilkinson and Pickett- DV is a result of stress on family members caused by social inequalities

  -Ansley- women are takers of shit
• Marxist feminist evaluation-

  Doesn't explain male victims, DV isn't limited to the W/C and not all men are violent towards their partners.
• Impact of the triple shift on women-

  -Green- women tend to see their free time as time when their away from paid work and family commitments

  -Bernard- found that men were more satisfied in the marriage than women

  -Oakley- found that women felt similar feelings of boredom and depression as that felt by line workers in factories