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    has increased exponentially. Women are gaining more and more equality in the social‚ economic and political affairs‚ but gender inequity within the home regarding the division of household labor remains. Women are still primarily responsible for housework and childcare. Arlie Russell Hochschild’s concept of the “second shift” describes the situation of many women today. The “second shift” refers to all the chores and tasks that women are expected to complete concerning maintenance of the home and

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    will learn how to describe their housework activities with specific vocabulary __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE To create a good enviroment between T and SS using vocabulary related with the lesson PROCEDURE TIME MATERIAL SKILLS EVALUATION TEACHER’S NOTES OR METHODOLOGY Warm up T will talk about his experiences doing the housework and he will encourage SS to share

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    not everything happens in a bang‚ even sociologists agree that things must be done in "baby steps" for example Coltrane and Ishii-Kuntz in 1992. Found that when couples waited to conceive and have their first-born child those husbands did more housework than in the couples where they had their first-born sooner. Another researcher into this is Elizabeth Bott her work which extends to "Family and Social Networks". Bott distinguishes between two types of conjugal roles‚ segregated and joint. She

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    Examine some of the ways in which the role of fathers in families has changed The domestic division of labour refers to the roles that men and women play in relation to housework‚ childcare and paid work. According to familial ideology‚ the nuclear family is most successful when there is a clear segregation (separation and distinction from one another) of gender roles. In Talcott Parson’s functionalist model‚ there is a clear division between the spouses’ role. The husband is said to have an instrumental

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    is the female homemaker who tends to do the housework‚ wash the dishes‚ feed the family and clean the house. These two roles have also been recognised by the sociologist Talcott Parsons who has named the ‘instrumental’ and ‘expressive’ roles. The joint conjugal role is where the couple share the tasks that need to be fulfilled such as housework and childcare and they also spend their leisure time together. In today’s modern family the male is now doing more tasks at home that would have stereotypically

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    “Assess the view that conjugal roles‚ domestic labour and power relationships have changed significantly over the past 50 years (24 marks).” Different sociologists have had different views to whether conjugal roles have become equal. Some researchers have concentrated on the division of labour in the home by examining the allocation of domestic work between husband and wife‚ and the amount of time spent on particular tasks. Others have tried to measure the distribution of power within marriage.

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    Feminists reject this ‘March of progress’ view as they say roles are not equal within the home. In a research there is evidence that men ‘help’ at home but it is far from symmetry within the roles. Feminists say that men usually claim to be helping by doing the pleasurable jobs rather than the work‚ therefore research so far suggests feminists view the division of labour within the family home as unequal. Sociologist Ann Oakley disagrees with Young and Willmott’s view. Rather than seeing a march of progress

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    in today’s society. Many feminists argue that despite women having the opportunity to work as men to‚ there is little evidence that the average family is symmetrical. It is claimed that women have simply acquired a dual burden of paid work and housework. This leads to claims that the family remains patriarchal as men benefit from both women’s earnings and their domestic labour. Elsa Ferri and Kate smith (1996) found that the increased employment of women has little impact on domestic labour. On

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    rarely succeeds in getting them because his wife makes most of the household decisions. During the entire episode‚ Ray is only seen doing housework once. Unfortunately‚ he is completely clueless as to what to do and Debbie has to take over. This clearly shows that even though Ray is the dominant one in the house‚ he is not required to do thing pertaining to housework and childcare. In fact‚ if Ray is asked to do something like that he complains and does everything he can to get out of it. This behavior

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    When I think of a person who is doing all the chores and tasks‚ such as laundry‚ cooking and cleaning that person no other than a wife. In my perspective‚ the idea of a partner is different to what Brady’s description. In Brady’s essay “I Want a Wife”‚ she describes the duties of the typical wife would have to do for the family. She explains that the wife is expected to take care of the house‚ the children and keeping husband satisfied in life such as; dealing with physical‚ mental‚ social and sexual

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