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GCSE History · key term
The combined responsibility of paid employment and unpaid work in the home, such as childcare and housework.
Used by AQA and Edexcel
Paper 1
The expectation that women would perform paid work while remaining responsible for housework and family care.
Revise: Modernisation of the USSRNevertheless, women generally received lower wages and faced limits on advancement. They were still expected to carry out housework and childcare after their paid working day: the double burden.
Paper 3
Revise: Women and Ethnic MinoritiesA woman could finish a shift at work and then return home to another set of duties. This double burden meant that expanding employment did not necessarily make women’s lives easier.
The responsibility for both employment or agricultural work and unpaid domestic work, such as cooking, cleaning and childcare.
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