The Symmetrical Family: A Study of Work and Leisure in the London Region

by Peter Willmott and Michael Young

First published in 1973, The Symmetrical Family combines evidence about the family of the past with information from a sociological survey in the London region and uses both as the basis for a speculative discussion about the future. The argument is that a new style of family life has emerged. Its basis is not equality between husbands and wives but at least something approaching symmetry: increasingly wives work outside the home and husbands...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032573023
• ISBN13: 9781032573021
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 408 Pages