My sociology coursework is about the segregated conjugal roles between men and women in a household.

... Introduction Conjugal roles are the tasks typically taken up by husband and wife in the household. My sociology coursework is about the segregated conjugal roles between men and women in a household. My main aim is to find out if household tasks are shared equally between men and women in the house. In 1957, E.Bott analysed conjugal roles in the household. He studied 128 working and middle class couples and found that women were left to do most of the housework and therefore there was a clear division of labour between who carries out the household tasks. However, more recently, in 1970 Young and Willmott found that this was changing and that joint conjugal roles existed. They believed that men and women both helped around the house and this was called the "symmetrical family." However, there was conflict feminists did not agree with Young and Willmott's theory. They said that although men

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