Elizabeth Bott's conjugal roles

Conjugal roles appear when husbands and wives get married and starting to have their own family and house; but this is just the simple way of saying. More in-depth, the conjugal role is a segregation between husbands and wives, results that came from the division of labour in a family. For example, the house keeping between family members, how should it be separated?

In Elizabeth Bott's classic study of Family and Social Network (1957), she gives a observation of one spouse devoted in the financial part of the family, and the other one who keeps those domestic part within the household, such as chores, for instance.

She has studied a more in-depth of 20 predominantly working-class London families. It shows the variable issues among spouses in sharing the same house, interests and outdoor/indoor activities, etc. This is due to the division of labout between husbands and wives. On the other hand, there are also families that shared the common interest and houseworks, which indicates not the whole amount of couples are in the sex role segregation.

Also joint conjugal means that women work on jobs and men are responsible for the domestic tasks.