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| Segregated conjugal roles |
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| Where a heterosexual couple have separate roles: the male has an instrumental role, where he is the breadwinner (financial supporter); the female has an expressive role, where she is the homemaker/carer. Leisure activities are also separate. |
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| Where a heterosexual couple share tasks such as housework and childcare, and they spend their leisure time together. |
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| Where people move to where the work is, instead of living in the same town for their whole life. |
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| 'March of Progress' theory |
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| Young and Willmott's view of how men and women are gradually becoming more equal on an positive trend. |
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| Male dominated; a system of ideologies that serve to meet the needs of men; oppresses women to benefit men. |
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| Sex-typing of domestic tasks |
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| Where men and women are associated with a specific domestic task e.g. women doing the washing up, and men mowing the lawn |
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| Where women have a burden to carry out domestic tasks at home and go to work as well. This is patriarchal because men benefit from a tidy house and the extra money that she brings home. |
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| Managing the emotions of oneself and others; a "labour of love". |
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| Paid work (occupation), unpaid work (domestic tasks) and emotion work (managing emotions of others). |
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| The expectations of how men and women should act. |
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| Where both partners have access to income and have joint responsibility for expenditure i.e. joint bank account |
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| Where the breadwinner (most likely male) gives their partner (most likely female) an allowance out of which they have to budget the family's needs, and the man retains any surplus income for himself. |
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| The physical, psychological, sexual or financial violence that takes place within an intimate or family-type relationship. |
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| Negative outcomes from a family unit structure, including child abuse and domestic violence. |
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| Commercialisation of housework |
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| The burden of domestic tasks on women is reduced - previous housework tasks that were completed by housewives have been made quicker and easier with the use of technology e.g. hoovers, dishwashers, etc. More women are in paid work now, which means they can afford to buy these. |
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| Verbal abuse (domestic violence) |
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| Constant bullying, shouting, nagging, etc. Blaming the person for everything that goes wrong, manipulating them into thinking it is their fault. |
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| Psychological abuse (domestic violence) |
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| Depriving the person from leaving the house to see other people or do leisure activities. |
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| Financial abuse (domestic violence) |
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| When the breadwinner deprives the homemaker from using money that they earned, so that the homemaker has to depend on them. |
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