Feminist Views

• Positives - acknowledges the role of women, in most families and not injustice of the expectations surrounding domestic work and women. Women still undertake a majority of the household tasks when in a heterosexual relationship. Modern theory so it can be applied to modern society
• Negatives - does not take other aspects of family life into account like class or ethnicity, does not consider other family types. Same-sex and single parent families on the rise, so the extent of female oppression has to be questioned
• Liberal Feminists - look at increasing equality between men and women and campaign for change
• Radical Feminists - the nuclear family functions to benefit men, gender role socialisation means girls and boys behave in a stereotypical way e.g. sexual division of labour
• Marxist Feminist - the nuclear family functions to benefit capitalism and because of this benefits the wealthy, men benefit from family more than women, there are expectations of women; to have children, and take time of job to take care of children, this benefits men because women can't compete with men for jobs.