SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: New Home Economics, Neoliberalism
1 Nov 2017
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Functionalist perspective (new home economics): labour is divided through a consensual process whereby couples decide that the spouse with the higher earnings will do less housework. Resource perspective: lower earning spouses have less power, and as a consequence, will do more unpaid labour. Canadian couples who have higher incomes are associated with less time on unpaid labour (true for both men and women). Housework is most likely to be shared when women earn more than ,000/yr: critique: increase in wife"s income is not then met by equivalent contributions to unpaid labour from husbands. Time availability perspective: unpaid labour is based on hours spent in paid work: critique: doesn"t explain why we see women continuing to do a disproportionate amount of labour when working the same amount of hours as their husbands. The social construction of gender: unpaid labour reflects gender socialization, role ideologies, and cultural understandings of masculinity and femininity. Historically domestic work has been constructed as feminine.
