Topic 3 - Gender roles

• What are conjugal roles?

  Describes the roles of husband and wife in a household - they have different roles within the family
• Who came up with the expressive and instrumental role?

  Parson but Ann Oakley also agreed
• Describe the expressive role

  the lead of the emotional support, nurturing, caring and taking care of childcare and housework
• Describe the instrumental role

  the 'breadwinner' of the family who is head of the household and in charge of discipline
• Who looked at the different roles (Joint and Segregated roles)?

  Elizabeth Bott
• What are the two types of roles in the household?

  Joint and segregated roles
• What is the 'New Man'?

  who is more caring and emotional in his attitudes to women, own emotional needs and committed to their fair share of housework and childcare
• Why do we have changes in different roles?

  • Improved living standards in the home
  • The improved status and rights of women
  • The increase in the number of women in paid employment
  • The decline in close knit extended family, greater geographical social mobility
  • The commercialisation of housework
  • Weaker gender identities
• What did Young and Wilmott argue that?

  Symmetrical Family (same on both sides), more equally in the domestic division of labour