Expectations and norms laid out by society about the different roles played by men & women.
What did Dunne find in her experiment on Gender Scripts & Lesbian Couples?
With a study of 37 Co-habitating lesbian couples with dependent children, found that compared to heterosexual couples lesbian couples were more likely to:
Describe their relationship as equal and share housework and childcare equally.
Give equal importance to both partners careers.
View childcare positively.
Dunne argues that this is because lesbian couples interact in different ways and they are not under any pressure to conform to gender scripts.
What are the evaluations of Dunne’s research?
Radical feminists support this belIrving that women can only achieve equality in same-sex relationships.
however Dunne did find that when one partner was paid more than another, the time each partner spent on. domestic labour was unequal, showing that paid work still had an impact in same-sex couples.
