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Detailed explanation-1: -Delphy & Leonard-who are feminists-looked at the role of women in families and particularly at housework and the idea that women were exploited by their husbands. Delphy and Leonard took a feminist look at the family and particularly at the work of women in the home.

Detailed explanation-2: -Writing from a feminist perspective Delphy and Leonard emphasise the importance of work. In their view it is men, rather than capitalists as such, who are the prime beneficiaries of the exploitation of women’s labour.

Detailed explanation-3: -For Delphy and Leonard (1992) argue it is men rather than capitalism who benefit the most from exploiting women and the family is central in maintaining this structure as: families are structured; in this structure men dominate while women and children are subordinate (very few families are matriarchal)

Detailed explanation-4: -Duncombe and Marsden (1995) Duncombe and Marsden claimed that instead of symmetrical households, women had to deal with a ‘triple shift’; besides their paid work and domestic work, they had to do the emotional work for the whole family, especially for the children.

Detailed explanation-5: -Performing the triple shift entails of being a mother, housewife and also working a waged job, also known paid work, domestic work and emotional work. In her classic book ‘The Managed Heart’ (published in 1983, ) sociologist Arlie Hochschild first presented the idea of emotional labour.