... of this type are known as joint conjugal roles whereby tasks are shared. However Willmott and Young have been severely critisized on their assumptions being based on 'typical, metropolitan white families' over looking family diversity present in society. The term 'symmetry' does not represent the idea of equality it is intended to. Evidence illustrates the diversity of modern family structure and so the idea of any family being typical in not very realistic. Apparently their sociology same about from a very 'male stream sociology' so a woman who worked outside the house is believed, is still responsible for the home. There is some support for their work where Gershuny, who studied the amount of time spent by couples on domestic labour found that the 'proportion of housework performed by husbands has increased as wives have taken on paid employment'. Combining work and family is an important issue not only because it ...

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