A landmark study of two-career parents, and a compassionate inside view of ten couples struggling to find time and energy for jobs, children and marriage.
Updated for a workforce now half female, this edition cites a range of new studies and statistics and includes a new afterword in which Hochschild assesses how much-and how little-has changed for women today..
Adding together time in paid work, child care, and housework, she found that Working mothers put in a month of work a year more than their spouses.
In it, she examined what really happens in dual-career households.
More than twenty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with his bestselling book, The Second Shift.
An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than twenty years after its original publication.
A landmark study of two-career parents, and a compassionate inside view of ten couples struggling to find time and energy for jobs, children and marriage
