SOCB49H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Invisibility
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Women are more likely to do things that need to be done daily with timelines, men do more things that they can take their time. Women are like a switchboard, doing many things at once: example: talking on the phone while folding laundry. Working women work 10-12 times longer (a month extra, per year) than their working husband. Couples that shared the housework were the happiest, and had the most sex. Notion of unsaid conversation : couples have expectations, but they don"t talk about it with their partner. It"s an issue that is rarely talked about but so heavily affects the relationships within a family. Changing norms, roles, and practices: women now work full time jobs. This requires the couple to have to negotiate who does what housework: couples have high expectations at the beginning of the relationship/marriage; these also have to be negotiated at the practical and emotional level. Couples don"t talk about this stuff when they start dating.
