gender roles

• What are Conjugal roles?

  Division of labor and responsibilities between partners in a marriage or relationship.
• What are Conjugal roles?

  The roles of the husband and wife within the family household
• What did Elizabeth Bott look at about gender roles?

  Looked at how jobs and roles within the family were allocated to men and women in modern industrial Britain
• What are segregated roles?

  Husbands and wives lead separate lives with clear and distinct responsibilities within the family - the male goes out to work and the female stays home, looks after the kids and provides emotional support
• What do Joint roles mean?

  Husband and wife roles are more flexible and shared, with less defined tasks for each. Usually leisure time is shared. Responsibility for making decisions is also shared
• What did Wilmot and Young study in relation to gender roles?

  They studied the changing structure of the British family from extended to nuclear.
• what did Wilmott and Young suggest about the increase in nuclear family’s?

  That it meant that joint conugal roles would develop. They predicted that equal and shared responsibilities would be the future norm in British families
• What was Wilmott and Young criticised for?

  Their picture of widespread equalities in marriage was criticised as soon as it was published
• What did Oakley point out about Wilmott and Youngs study?

  That it only required men to do a few things around the house to qualify as having joint roles
• What did Oakleys research find?

  That it was rare for men to do a lot of housework
• What are still unequal?

  Conjugal roles are still unequal although most women have paid jobs
• What does Edgell suggest about joint conjugal roles?

  They tested Wilmott and Youngs theory and found that none of the sample families had joint conjugal roles in relation to housework. However, he did find increase sharing of childcare
• What does Oakley suggest about joint conjugal roles?

  He found that women took on dual burden
• What is the dual burden?

  Taking on paid Jobs and still keeping the traditional responsibilities for home and children
• What does Dunne suggest about joint conjugal roles?

  She studied lesbian hosuehold. She found that the distribution of responsibilities such as childcare and housework tended to be equal between partners