Gender roles

• Parsons

  Segregated conjugal roles - men = instrumental and women = expressive

  Both naturally suited to these roles and domestic division of labour is based on biological differences
• Bott

  Conjugal roles - Close knit couples tend to have separated conjugal roles as each partner have own friends

  Acts as a form of social control - make sure couples don't drift away from traditional gender roles through teasing
• Young and Willmott

  Privatisation and the family - family developed in 3 stages

  Pre-industrial family, early industrial family and privatised nuclear family and symmetrical form
• Oakley

  Segregated conjugal roles - Men and women still unequal

  Sociology of housework - MC husbands gave more help than WC and both gave more help with childcare than housework
• Gershuny

  Lagged adaptation - Conjugal roles will become more equal as women going into work faster now than men so men have to take over household chores

  Men adapt to changes more slowly than women
• Silver and Schor

  Commercialisation of housework and death of housewife - Housework become commercialised due to increase in domestic appliances so its easier and less skilled so men can do it

  Women working means more new appliances or employ someone else to do it so housewife roles been reduced
• Dunne

  Lesbian families have join conjugal roles - more equal division of labour
• Pahl and Vogler

  Money and marriage - men are main beneficiaries of things such as joint bank accounts as have final say, women use their control for benefit of children