Functionalist Murdock suggested as children we are socialised into societies shared norms and values and he believed that males provide the economic roles and females provided the expressive role. Therefore it is natural for women to play the expressive role in the household looking after the family’s emotional needs. However, radical feminist Ann Oakley argues that the role of the housewife is a social construction and isn’t linked to the female role. The housewife role makes sure that women stay inferior to men making it difficult for them have careers. Women carry out the triple burden in the household; the domestic labour, emotional labour, and paid labour.
This displays his change of view, where he realized that time with his wife was more important than work. He thought that if he had died then that he would’ve wasted his life working and not with his wife. Secondly, a similar theme is seen in the article “Double Daddy” by Penny Parker. Ryan Streeter, a researcher at Hudson Institute in Indianapolis said, “[…] there needs to be workplace flexibility for men, but in general, corporations have the expectation for men to put business over family”. (1) This is true, men should have the privilege of being able to be with their family whenever it is necessary.
Without a doubt, both men and women are equally just as hard working- they aim to achieve the same goals of providing for their family and living a comfortable financially stable life. Women see clearly the paths of men in the workforce and understand what is necessary in order to successfully accomplish what the men do, but some men fail to see just how important and beneficial it is for a man to stay at home. I don’t believe that our society has fully come to the understanding that men are not the more powerful sex, but neither are women. Thinking traditionally, what is a man without the TLC a woman provides, and what is a woman without the financial stability of a job that a man has? That method of thinking in this society is rendered
She continues to argue that as a result such difference presents inequality and has made genuine love between man and women doubtful. Genuine love in de Beauvoir’s recognition would be an equal relationship between man and woman comprising of “the mutual recognition of two liberties” in which “the lover would than experiences themselves both as self and as the other: neither would give up transcendence, neither would be mutilated; together they would manifest values and aims in the world” (De Beauvoir 1983, p. 677). In consideration to her statement she therefore believes that there exists a problem which is preventing the genuine love between man and woman, the problem of inequality. A woman she states is defined and differentiated in accordance to man and not he in reference to her (De Beauvoir 1983, p. 16). Thus a woman’s existence and recognition is dependent on a man’s acknowledgement.
The practice of polygamy distorts the meaning of marriage. Goodman says that "defenders argue that polygamous marriages are freely entered, freely left, well protected by law or custom" (pg 90). I believe this type of marriage is wrong for the women involved and it breaks down the institution of marriage. The women are denied the intended bond they are to have with a husband. Not being able to have this bond disables her trust and intimacy with her husband, these are meant to strengthen a relationship and marriage.
Power relationships are about who controls the family and who has the power to make the decisions. The domestic division of labour is the changing nature of housework and home-related activities related to changing roles of men and women and the idea of masculinity and femininity, both in and beyond the home. In this essay I will be talking about a Patriarchal society, In 1955, Parsons a functionalist sociologist suggested that the husband and wife have different roles within the family and that there is a clear division of labour and clear expectations from each spouse. The man’s role was called instrumental, this is where he is expected to have a successful job to financially support the family. Whereas the wife’s role was called expressive, this is when the wife is expected to look after the house and to raise the children emotionally and cook.
These two articles work together to show how balancing family, marriage, and work is very difficult whether it be unrealistic expectations of co-parenting or mismanaging anger. In Hope Edelman’s “The Myth of Co-Parenting: How It Was Supposed to Be. How it Was” she expresses vividly how she feels about her misinterpretation of married life. Before she was married to John, she had a “vague assumption” (Edelman 284) that co-parenting was an attainable goal. Her idea of co-parenting was “If I’m going to contribute half of the income, then he’ll contribute half of the housework and child care” (Edelman 284).
Kinship networks- strings of relationships between people related by blood and marriage. Lateral kinship ties ( same age group) Minimal division of labor between the sexes. Children= small adults. Families in the Industrial Era Separate spheres of work and home. Family= strictly site for consumption.
The two generate an interesting debate; however they might lose their credibility because Robert brought the fact that Jacqueline was married which is not job related and could be discriminatory to unmarried applicant while Paul he continually refer about Sonya’s enthusiasm and could be the selling point but this is not also offer any substantial reasons for her preference. One thing that I observed for the two is that Robert and Paul have a very good relationship – when they do have disagreements they are understanding and accepting of their differences and compromise when necessary. Robert doesn’t think too highly of the swinging bachelor persona, but it hasn’t affected job performance – anyway, it’s diversity that makes life
There is also a debate on whether machinery is being put to good use for work by money standard. There is also a debate on whether machinery is being put to good use for work or whether it has taken over many jobs that cant be done better by hand. Dorothy Sayers, says that people work because certain people “love” their job. Then there are some people who work just strictly for the money and to get what they want with it. I think that the meanings of work lie in wanting to have money, to live happily and to survive.