ABSTRACT
Family life in patriarchal Western cultures is very different for men and for women. This reflects the way that family members fulfil different roles. Furthermore, women and men experience the evolution of family life over time often in quite different ways. In any culture, the sorts of social interactions in which men and women engage with their families, the time invested in those activities and their time and space ‘context’ (where the activities occur and over what distance) all reflect the gendered values and norms for family life within that culture (Massey 1994).
