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Conjugal Roles
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The roles played by a male and female partner in a marriage or a cohabiting relationship
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Segregated Conjugal Roles
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Show a clear division between the male and female roles.
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Integrated Conjugal Roles
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Show few divisions between male and female roles.
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Willmott and Young
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Symmetrical family: men become more domesticated, women breadwinners, couples companionate.
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How many women now have jobs?
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7/10 women now have jobs
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Coltrane et al
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Delayed childbirth = men do more housework
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Brayfield
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In dual career families women still had more responsibility to housework.
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Rapoport and Rapoport
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Career women still viewed by husband and children as wife and mother.
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Ann Oakley
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Jointly does not mean equally.Mens motive often to help woman out: still her role.
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David Morley
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Women see the home as a place of work, men see the home as a place of relaxation.
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Arlie Hoschild
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Full time working women spent at least 3 hours a day doing housework
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How women are socialised involving domestic roles
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Women's work, better at it than men. Assumption that women should enjoy it and be fulfilled by it.
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Ann Oakley (study of 40 housewives)
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Similar coping systems as that of factory workers, alienated by work, competed with each other to be good housewives.
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Mansfield and Collard
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Limited symmetry in newly weds. Newly wed wives: disappointed by lack of emotional repriocity in marriage
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Sallie Westwood
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Asian conjugal roles = assymetrical
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