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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

What is the impact of gender division of labour on the development of society?

  • UPSC 2020
  • Systems of Kinship

The gender division of labour assigns tasks by socially defined gender, not ability: production and public roles to men, reproduction and care to women. Functionalists saw it as an engine of social order and progress. Feminist and development scholars show that, in its present form, it holds development back, while a renegotiated division speeds it…

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  • The functionalist view: a basis of order
  • The critical view: costs to development
  • When the division changes, development accelerates
  • Conclusion

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