division of labour

• The sociology of housework?

  • Study by Oakley
  • Found only 15% of husbands had a high level of participation in housework
  • 70% of those left women dissatisfied with the condition of the housework
• Craig?

  Women do 60% more domestic work than a man, and conjugal roles are more equal at first in a relationship
• Mumsnet?

  81% of women said they were the sole organiser of emotion work
• BBC Chore Wars?

  2/3 of young women admit to regular arguments of housework
• Galim and Thompson?

  1/10 men do more housework than women
• Duncombe and Marsden?

  Women work a triple shift - paid work, unpaid domestic work and emotion work
• Dunne?

  Gender scripts - studied 37 cohabiting lesbian couples and found that genders scripts were more symmetrical
• Single person households?

  Increased by 500,000 from 2003 to 2013
• Cohabitation?

  Doubled from 1996 to 2012
• Biggest increases in household types?

  • Single-parent households
  • Lone parent households (90% of which are matrifocal)