Author Question: One of the reasons they authors mention as why these women did not renegotiate household work after ... (Read 71 times)

Anajune7 · **on:** Jul 1, 2018

One of the reasons they authors mention as why these women did not renegotiate household work after their husbands were laid off and they continued to work was

a. they feared that their husbands would become violent and belligerent if they insisted on changes in household labor.
b. they actually enjoyed household work, and even though they were now working outside the home, they did not want to relinquish these duties.
c. they felt strongly that woman's work was still in the home, and wanted to serve as role models for their daughters as good homemakers.
d. they were seriously worried about the mental health of their husbands.

Question 2

Which of the following would best describe how the men in this study saw their primary identity, when they were laid off from work?

a. They now had a better understanding of the difficulties of household work and childcare and saw their identity more as fathers and house-husbands than before.
b. Though they were laid off, their primary identity still lay in their work world and the control paid work provided for them.
c. They refused to accept the fact that they were no longer working, and with unemployment d. These men completely took over the household tasks and saw this as their primary identity.