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Gender Roles
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Analyse whether women and men retain the traditional roles of homemaker and breadwinner today. In this assignment I will analyse whether in today's society women and men retain their traditional roles of homemaker and breadwinner. To identify the key features of traditional family life I will review two crucial periods in the construction of the UK family policy - 'normal' family in the post war period and reformulation of the family in the eighties. To analyse present gender roles I will use national statistics to establish employment patterns of men and women and differences in lifestyles. I will compare working lives of men and women and look at the introduction of 'family friendly' working policies along with state benefits and opportunities. I will take into consideration that whilst there are commonalities in the way people construct their family life there is nothing officially set relating to the structure of a family, and that it will be conventional...
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