SOCI 2700H Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Double Burden, Industrial Revolution, Ambert
5 Apr 2016
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Marx & weber; economic importance of families. Lynee casper, suzanne bianchi, phyllis moen, marry blair-loy, anne marie ambert, Stephanie coontz, etc: more complete picture of the challenges and obstacles that both men and women need to navigate within families and within gendered macro-social structures. Benoit (2000) describes the family-work relaionship in the context of gender inequity during diferent historical periods. In the post industrial socieies that we now experience, the dominance of the service sector (retail, service labour, restaurants), together with the availability of alternaive work, arrangements, provides opportuniies to women that were not previously available. Men would serve as breadwinners to fulill the instrumental role" while women would serve as homemakers to fulil the expressive role". The families that formed in response to these economic, poliical, and ideological condiions came to be known as breadwinner" families and unfortunately were/are misunderstood to be tradiional" families.
