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Division of Family Labour

Division of Family Labour.

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Division of Family Labour

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  1. Division of Family Labour

  2. The unequal effects on men and women’s life options and life course, centre around the family division of labour. David Morgan suggests doing family involves work, which includes cooking meals and house work. Although Australian women are now in the labour market they still do a disproportionate amount of family work. Improved household technology and conveniences such as take-away food have altered the shape, but not the level of unpaid family work.

  3. Overall time spent on housework has fallen by about three hours per week in the last two decades, but this has been more than replaced by a rise in the time devoted to caring for children by men and women. Family work, especially when there are children in the family, is also much more than housework. It is women who primarily hold an administrative role, coordinating the life of the family and it’s individual members (eg. Afterschool training, sports practice, music practice etc.)

  4. The discrepancy between men and women’s household labour is obvious even if we only take direct hours of housework into account. Women in such households report many more hours housework irrespective of their employment status. While 61% of full time employed men report 1-5 hours of housework per week only 12% of full time employed women do this little household labour.

  5. A convergence exists in the amount of time Australian men and women spend in unpaid domestic work over the last 20 years, a change that is not due to men taking on a greater share of domestic duties but to a reduction in the time spent on housework by women.

  6. Women especially are compromised when the promise of equality hits the reality of the daily experience of the inequality in the family.

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