According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Replacing a Housewife

question 13

Multiple Choice

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, replacing a housewife with paid laborers would cost at least $100,000 per year. How could this be interpreted according to conflict theory?

• A) The instrumental role is more valuable than the expressive role.
• B) Domestic work is a highly functional adaptation that produces gender equality within a family.
• C) Gender identity is so important to our social selves that we cannot determine anyone's role in the household without first determining their gender.
• D) Men have a great deal to lose if gender segregation disappears.
• E) Gender inequality is mostly produced and reproduced through interaction.

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