WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan, Heteronormativity
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If you don"t live in a heteronormative family, you are at a disadvantage. Women linked to private and domestic life. Lack of relationship to the labour market. Them being outside the home becomes secondary. Allocating certain work to each gender (generation: ex. Time spent on house work: men- 8. 3 hrs/week women- 13. 8 hrs/week. Women working all day then having to come home and work extra hours doing housework. This is seen as unremarkable in the public eye. Unit mobility must maximize, do what you are naturally best at. Unit is represented by a head (benevolent patriarch) The feminine mystique: women are angry they are expected to like housework biologically, women are dependent on a man"s wage, men benefit from this, not women the black box of the household, the unnamed problem. Women do it because they have the baby, the must know best how to care for it.
