... society were altering, particularly in the home. Families have moved towards symmetry, between the roles of male and female in home life. Their surveys found women were taking paid employment outside the home and there was an increase in the amount of "domestic labour" performed by males - 72% of husbands help in the house, however only one task per week was necessary to qualify. In contrast, Anne Oakley claimed that conjugal roles were not altering significantly. After interviewing forty women, with young children, they saw their responsibilities as housework and childcare, receiving little help from husbands. This illustrated a clear partition of labour, along gender lines. Oakley dismissed Young and Willmott's theory, as it was hardly persuasive evidence of 'male domestication' My second concept is conjugal roles, twenty and thirty years later. Research by Fiona Devine (1992) and Allan & Crow (2001) shows increased contributions by men in domestic tasks, however not ...

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