SOC 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gender Role
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Different states, living apart = near work: advantages, focus on career, by living on separately, focus on job no other desire/need for that other person. Don"t have to go home after work: frees up time for both partners extra time for their career, together as a couple petty problems of day-to-day problems don"t exist. Laundry, cooking, etc: rekindling romance when together, role expectations, don"t need gender role expectations, both roles have to learn how to carry their own responsibilities. Interruptions set you back hard to get back to it. Doctor in specialized field, take some time off field has moved on = not equipped to do procedures: dual career families, more egalitarian more equality in relationship + domestic work. Incomes that allow them to have more domestic health in the house. Second shift better managed: dual-income, not invested in a career, but a job, may get bs degree, but not any farther.