1. Women and Class Should women be classed according to their husbands?

2. Yes They are not permanent in the job market. Frank Parkin – the social and economic rewards of women are largely determined by their marital and family relationships.

3. Westergaard and Resler – men’s occupational circumstances set the essential circumstances of life for most households, however much one may deplore this.

4. Goldthorpe – husbands are more involved in the labour process. He examined data using 3 approaches and found non-inclusion of women made little difference to the results of social mobility studies.

5. No Britten and Heath looked at cross-class families where male manual workers were married to female non-manual workers. Found significant differences between these families and those where both husband and wife had a manual job. 79% of these had an income of £99 compared to 67% with two manual workers.

6. Stanworth (a Feminist) argued that individuals should be allocated a class according to their own job. Heath found differences in social mobility of men and women. Women are more likely to experience downward mobility. Abbott and Payne found more women than men were downwardly mobile.