Conjugal roles/ Domestic division of labour

• Conjugal roles


  Roles of men and women at home
• Domestic division of labour


  how domestic work is divided between family members
• parsons 


  difference between man and woman is good

  based on biology
• Young and Willmott


  contemporary relationships are now equal - womens position has improved with them now working more
• Feminists


  equality is a myth

  relationships are more pressure for women - “triple shift”
• Gershuny (equal roles)


  As women earn more, men do more housework
• Silver and Schor (equal roles)


  commercialised products within housework (microwave)

  > reduced burden on wives
• Reeves (equal roles)


  by 2043, “stay at home dad“ more common
• Pahl and Vogler (equal roles)


  pooling (both partners have access to income) is increasing
• Kan (equal roles)


  younger men do more housework

  > more than their fathers whilst women do less than their mothers
• Edgell (unequal roles)


  men have more say in important decisions as they have more money
• Ramos (unequal roles)


  if wife is the breadwinner and husband unemployed, they still do the same amount of housework
• Oakley (unequal roles)


  evidence of men doing housework but women are still financially dependent on men
• Duncombe and Marsden (unequal roles)


  women work a ‘triple shift’

  paid, emotional, domestic labour
• Smart (unequal roles)


  same sex have more freedom in roles
• Dunne (unequal roles)


  due to ingrained ‘gender scripts‘ - roles are expected to play
• Bott (equal and unequal roles)


  segregated role - separate

  joint role - share tasks equally
• Southerton


  Women role of coordinating family’s quality time together