Look at domestic labour within the family and any possible changes of domestic labour in the household.

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* Introduction... pg.3

* Aims and Hypothesis... pg.4

* Methodology... pg.5

* Results... pg.8

* Evaluation... pg.11

* Conclusion... pg.12

* Bibliography... pg.13

Introduction:

Domestic labour is the work done in the household by the members of the family and which is not paid.

I want to investigate if women still do the majority of the domestic labour in a household. I have chosen to investigate domestic labour because I want to see that, over the years if men have started helping with domestic labour in the household.

Domestic labour is work, which most women do on top of their employment, and the amount of work they do after they come home from their job varies. When women do domestic labour, as they're only or main work they do not get paid, so women get bored of doing domestic labour in the household.

Still today domestic labour is stereotypical gender roles predominate, which stereotypes show that women roles predominantly to do domestic labour in the household.

From the late nineteenth century until 1950 the relationship between husband and wife could be described as male domination