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Assess The View That The Division Of Labour Within Couples Has Become More Or Less Equal.
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Assess The View That The Division Of Labour Within Couples Has Become More Or Less Equal. Wilmott and Young carried out their research in London between 1950 and 1970. They believe that the family as we know it has developed and evolved through three stages to become as it is today. In the first stage, the Pre-Industrial family was extended and everyone lived and worked together. They therefore had joint conjugal roles, meaning they shared duties. In the second stage, the Early Industrial family were extended families beginning to become geographically mobile, dying out and becoming less common. In this stage, there were segregated conjugal roles; the husband was uninvolved with the raising of children and household work, but was the breadwinner of the family going out to earn money. Men spent their leisure time away from home, socialising with work mates and the females spent their time at home, only...
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