... were love, marriage, husbands, children, jobs and careers, more or less in that order. When this research was repeated in 1994, she found that the priorities of females had changed to wanting to have a good job and career and wanting to be able to support themselves financially. Traditionally the dominant ideas of the family ideology have included e.g., Marriage is a companionship, but men are head of household. Women are responsible for domesticity and childcare etc. Clearly, ideology is socially constructed and subject to continual evolution, rather than being 'natural', this is reflected in the changes to the ideology since the 19th century that include, for example, men are now encouraged to participate in domestic life. Workingwomen are now seen as quite normal. In a survey carried for the insurance firm Legal & General in April 2000, research found that the amount of time spent on housework and childcare by ...

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