SOCIOL 2U06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Double Burden
9 Jan 2016
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Chapter eighteen: family coping strategies balancing paid. From the early 20th century until the 1970s, it was the dominant family form and division of labour. This excluded those who did not live in heterosexual nuclear families and created pressures on people to marry. But like men, most women seek paid employment for more than just financial benefits. The assumption that men are income earners and do not have responsibility for domestic labour is central to the way most paid work is organized and fundamental to most male-dominated occupations. Changing strategies for managing domestic labour and paid. As the homemaker wife/income-earner husband strategy became increasingly less of an option, families developed a variety of other strategies to cope with the competing demands of domestic labour and paid employment. Where both partners have paid work, the responsibility for income generating is shared, providing the household with some protection from the insecurities of the labour market.
