Anne Oakley argues that we still live in a patriarchal (male dominated) society, and therefore women occupy a subordinate and dependant role within the family and wider society. Overall it could therefore be argued that rather than partners becoming more equal, women now have to carry a ‘dual burden’, whereby she is responsible for two jobs of unpaid or paid labour. Factors such as patriarchy and conforming to a gender script will lead to these divisions. It could be argued that the money management within a family has an effect on the
Overall it could therefore be argued that rather than partners becoming more equal, women now have to carry a ‘dual burden’, whereby she is responsible for two jobs of unpaid or paid labour. Factors such as patriarchy and conforming to a gender script will lead to these divisions. Secondly, it could be argued that the money management within a family has an effect on the power relations between couples. Edgell argues that the reason why men are likely to take the decisions is because they earn more; women usually earn less than their husbands, and as a result of being dependant on them, have less say in the decision making. Similarly, Michelle Barrett and Mary McIntosh additionally argue that men usually make the decisions about spending on important items.
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Lukas argues that the gender pay gap is solely based on career choices between men and women. Women may choose a more relaxed, traditional or laid back position, while men may have to work jobs that require longer hours and overtime which contributes to more pay and higher pay checks. Lukas is not alone in her belief that pay discrimination has long been
The common perception of marriage is that it was originally weighted heavily in favour of the male member of the couple, and that this has shifted slowly to a more even-handed arrangement in recent years. This essay will examine the question of how accurate this belief really is. Historically, marriage was highly unequal. While the husband took the role of breadwinner and went out to earn the necessary money to support the family, his wife was expected to stay at home and look after the more mundane tasks that make up the day-to-day running of a household. As the former role was commonly seen as more valuable than the latter, this often meant that the husband held most of the power, such as deciding where they would live, how resources were distributed, etc.
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He argues that the Middle Class is shrinking by the time and he evaluates people income in alignment with the business cycle. However, those people in the middle class want to maintain their relative level of income comparing to those who are above the level. Coping Mechanisms are those tools or ways that people in the middle class are using to maintain their relative income. Reich claims that there is a serious of coping mechanisms like women entering the workforce. He then explained that a family to sustain their level of income would put in longer shifts would be a coping mechanism in its own.
This is also challenged, but by sociologists (specifically feminists) who claim women working doesn’t mean they’re more equal – it means they now have a “dual burden” to carry, paid and unpaid work (unpaid work being household labour). Elsa Ferri and Kate Smith (1996) claim both these things benefit men and that households are still as patriarchal as they were before despite these working women. Based on a sample of 1,589 33-year-old-fathers and mother, they found the father only took the main responsibility for childcare in less than 4% of the
They believe in patriarchy – men are dominating over women and think this isn’t fair. Delphy and Leonard argue that women provide 57 varieties of unpaid services for men, including sexual desires. They also feel that women contribute more to family life, by things like the birth of the children, but they get fewer material benefits of family life than men. Oakley found that only 15% of husbands had a high level of participation in housework and only 25% had a participation in childcare. This shows the majority of families have segregated conjugal roles – men are primarily the breadwinners and the females are the housewife/ look after the
Perrons (2003, p.68) argues that this new economy has created a digital divide, which has the potential to reinforce divisions of gender, class, ethnicity and race. Furthermore, women are more likely to be represented in lower-paid employment, while there is an over-representation of educated white middle-class men in high-level jobs within these professions. This new economy has also fostered a different approach to employment, which is characterised by risk. Gill (2002) draws on Ulrick Beck’s notion that society is shifting to a second modernity, which has been brought about by innovations in technology and globalisation. A stable career was considered the norm in the twentieth century industrial age, however, the concept of a permanent career is being increasingly