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What do Marxists think about capitalism?
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Marxists see such an economy as one in which capitalists, who own the means of production, wield power over workers who do not and are therefore forced to sell their labor for wages
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What do Marxists think is the cause of women’s oppression?
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Adherent of this view believe that the present status of women is the result of a long process of interaction between patriarchy and capitalism.
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Does it appear that Marxists truly believe in total equality between men and women?
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no
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What is patriarchy?
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Refers to a system where men’s dominance as a group over women as a group is the real source of gender inequality
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What do radical feminists see as the true locus of women’s oppression?
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The family
They recognize both the existence of emotional ties and the existence of some unified interests within the family; they nonetheless see the family as the locus of struggle. |
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Does the type of economic system matter to radical feminists?
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Radical feminist assert that the patriarchal tradition existed long before capitalism and would, absent other changes, continue even if capitalism's appeared.
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Does it matter to the Marxists?
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In fact, they believe that the particular economic system is largely irrelevant to their concern with patriarchy, just as Marxists believe that patriarchy is irrelevant to their concern with the economic system.
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What does the Marxist feminist believe?
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Believe that the present status of women is the result of a long process of interaction between patriarchy and capitalism.
They argue that if women’s subordination is to end, and if working men are to escape class oppression, occupational segregation and traditional division of labor in the household will both have to end. |
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Radical feminist
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In fact, they believe that the particular economic system is largely irrelevant to their concern with patriarchy, just as Marxists believe that patriarchy is irrelevant to their concern with the economic system.
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Why do different research studies show different amounts of time spent on housework?
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Some studies collect information based on stylized questions about particular activities such as “How many hours you spend doing laundry last week?” while other studies ask respondents to record in a “time diary” what they do during specific blocks of time.
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How would women’s rising market wages affect the amount of housework they do?
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A dynamic process may be going on in which rising market wages induce women to allocate more time to market work and less time to house work. As they do so, they accumulate more labor market experience, further increasing their wages and resulting in further decreases in their housework time.
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If the husband is unemployed, what does the research say about his hours of housework?
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They spend little time on housework. These findings suggest that time spent in housework remains tied to traditional notions of women’s and men’s gender roles.
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What does the research show about the gender difference in hours and pay for household work for teenage boys and girls?
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Teenage girls spend 50 percent more time doing housework than teenage boys.
This gender difference is further compounded but the fact that girls are less likely to be paid for their efforts. A study found that girls are 1 percent less likely than boys of the same age to receive an allowance for doing household chores. |
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What are the differences in housework for men in married vs. cohabitating couples?
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Cohabitating men spend a larger share of time on it than married men.
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What role would specialization play for the housework outcome for cohabitating couples?
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Evidence shows less specialization among partner in gay and lesbian couples.
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Why is it difficult to measure time spent on child care?
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A challenging aspect of looking at this issue that it is not clear what activities should be included.
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How big is the difference in time that non-employed mothers versus employed mothers spend with their children?
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Non employed mothers spend more time with their children than employed mothers do. However, the difference is not as great as might have been expected.
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What about the difference between all working women and those just working full-time?
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Women who are employed full time may be able to juggle their schedules in order to pick their children up after school or occasionally take an afternoon off from work.
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Why is it surprising that more highly educated mothers spend more time directly engaged with their children
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Time with their children may be a luxury good, meaning that tie with children increases with income. It may be the case that highly educated mothers view one-on-one time with children as a necessary “investment” in their children, alongside formal education and extracurricular activities
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What could be an explanation for this phenomenon?
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Less-educated mothers work the same numbers of hours and have similar preferences; they have less flexible schedules, reducing the opportunity to take time off at will.
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The unequal division to household labor, especially in households with young children, can hold back women at a time when they are trying to build their careers. But other evidence indicates that this inequality is less of a problem for women today than it may appear. How so?
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Part-time women, often because they have primary responsibility for their family, are likely to confront smaller and less attractive choice of jobs, frequently lower earnings, scant fringe benefits, and fewer opportunities for promotion, while those who work full time must deal with a considerably heavier workload.
Employed women who are responsible for taking care of very young children or other family members needing personal car are likely to confront particular problems. |
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Your textbook notes that our standards of cleanliness have changed and we now have more machines to do our cleaning, as well as hiring out for housework. But what is different about African Americans using market substitutes for housework?
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They are less likely to use market substitutes than other groups.
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What is the opportunity cost approach to estimating non-market production?
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It results in a higher value being placed on the non-market production of those whose market productivity is higher.
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What is the market cost approach to estimating non-market production?
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Is to first determine how much time is sent o each specific activity and then to use the wages of specialists such as cooks, home decorators, chauffeurs, and even child psychologists to estimate the value of non-market time.
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