SOCI 415 Chapter n/a: Family Change Readings
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Increasing resource inequality among families in modern societies: the mechanisms of growing educational homogamy, changes in the division of work in the family and the decline of the male breadwinner model. 40(4), 603-616. consider how changes in marriage patterns as well as the interdependencies of co careers and changes therein impact on social inequality in modern societies. This norm defines wives as secondary providers and continues to make it difficult for women to marry downwardly (and men partner choice. Impact of changes in the division of work in family and the decline of the male breadwinner model. Hence, when women married to men with high earnings enter the labour force, this increases the inequality between families. Altogether, the rising educational homogamy in modern societies and the diffusion of dual- earner couples in male breadwinner societies has enhanced social inequality in modern societies.
