SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Conflict Avoidance
31 Oct 2013
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Women do more unpaid work: men and women do equal amounts of productive labour, but women do more unpaid labour. Gender inequalities persist among dual-earner families: the second shift by hochschild (1989) Looked at husbands and wives that worked full time. Big conclusion was that women were carrying a disproportionate share of the housework. Way to function is to set timelimits for everything. To try to get everything done on time. Parents who are doing childcare in this context are dealing with a third. Shift: dealing with all of the emotional consequences of this stressful fast-paced homelife, third shift becomes about emotional labour, children react negatively to this high-pressure pace. Men in dual-earner couples do more than men in male breadwinner couples: but still doing much less than their full-time working wives. Gender inequalities narrowing over time: situation is improving men are doing more now than they have in the past.
