Author Question: The authors describe the women in this study as engaging in pragmatic egalitarianism.. What does ... (Read 50 times)

bucstennis@aim.com · **on:** Jul 1, 2018

The authors describe the women in this study as engaging in pragmatic egalitarianism.. What does this term mean?

a. The families in this study, for the most part, sat down together after the husband was laid off and created a new list of household duties that was more equally shared than when both husband and wife were working.
b. The families in this study were more practical about who would do which jobs, with men taking care of the lawn and fixing the plumbing, and women doing the cooking and shopping.
c. The families in this study recognized that women would have to join the work force full-time, but that they were still expected to do traditional women's work around the house.
d. The families in this study did not change their household division of labor after the husband was laid off. In fact, nothing changed.

Question 2

Among the people in this study, for the women who had full-time paying jobs, which of the following is true?

a. Their husbands not only took on a greater amount of housework, but they did the kind of housework that traditionally was called women's work..
b. Their husbands took on more household duties, but women were still expected to do traditional female chores, such as grocery shopping, scrubbing floors, and cleaning toilets.
c. Their husbands did not step in to do any more around the house, and the women were expected to do the same amount of housework, even if the husband was unemployed and the wife was employed.
d. These couples represent the trend toward more egalitarian division of labor in household work, where both the husband and wives do equal shares.