Sociological Perspective On Women

In attempts to explain and understand the social world, sociologists utilize a wide variety of social perspectives which provide different frameworks for analyzing various social phenomena. Thus, various social problems such as gender inequality, racism, or poverty can be analyzed using the various sociological perspectives within the discipline of sociology. In this paper, various issues facing women as workers and parents will be analyzed and explained utilizing the sociological perspective of feminism. The sociological framework of feminism is a conflict perspective that focuses on highlighting the importance of women within society, understanding how power is distributed among genders, and the basis of gender inequality. Society tends to be theorized through the perspectives of men alone, in this paper issues of family roles, unpaid labour and the second shift will be analyzed through the perspective of women.
The family is regarded as the most influential institution in society, it’s a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household.
Sociologists Arlie Hochschild and Anne Machung use “the second shift” to refer to the responsibilities of childcare and housework performed by women, in addition to their paid labor. As a result, mothers that engage in paid labour engage with more work when they get home, this places a lot of stress on these women and can influence their performances at their jobs hindering their opportunities in the work force. Also, some of these women may become blinded to this extra work they engage in and fabricate a sense of equality by comparing their husband’s household work to men that do less. Feminists argue that in order for true equality to exist domestic labour needs to be measured and men must also engage in work within the family such as cooking, cleaning and caring for the