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The second shift

, Volume 63
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Avon Books, 1990 - Family & Relationships - 315 pages
In this landmark study, sociologist Arlie Hochschild takes us into the homes of two-career parents to observe what really goes on at the end of the "work day." Overwhelmingly, she discovers, it's the working mother who takes on the second shift.Hochschild finds that men share housework equally with their wives in only twenty percent of dual-career families. While many women accept this inequity in order to keep peace, they tend to suffer from chronic exhaustion, low sex drive, and more frequent illness as a result. The ultimate cost is the forfeited health and happiness of both partners, and often the survival of the marriage itself.With a new afterword by the author, this groundbreaking study is as relevant today as when it was first published.

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User Review  - Kirsten - Goodreads

At first this book seemed as though it would not be relevant to today's couples, but once the reader delves further in the relevance will be apparent. Husbands and wives have not changed so much that ... Read full review

Review: The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home

User Review  - Tricia Rosetty - Goodreads

A few years ago, I told a girlfriend of mine that the reason women didn't run the world is we get distracted by housework. I was joking, but as it turns out, I wasn't too far from being right. Women ... Read full review

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Marriage in the Stalled Revolution
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The Cultural Coverup
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She Minds the Child, He Minds the Dog - New York Times
THE SECOND SHIFT Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. By Arlie Hochschild with Anne Machung. 309 pp. New York: Viking. $18.95. ...
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Working Parents The Second Shift - businessweek
Posted by: Anne Tergesen on May 26. When I graduated from college more years ago than I care to count, I landed a job as an editorial assistant (ie: slave) ...
www.businessweek.com/ careers/ workingparents/ blog/ archives/ 2006/ 05/ the_second_shif.html

JSTOR: The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home
The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. Julie Brines. Journal of Marriage and the Family, Vol. 52, No. 1, 278-279. Feb., 1990. ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0022-2445(199002)52%3A1%3C278%3ATSSWPA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H

Bringing The Second Shift to Work
The Working Paper Series is intended to report preliminary results-in-progress. Comments are welcome. Bringing The Second Shift to Work ...
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Arlie Hochschild With Anne Machung, <em>The Second Shift: Working ...
The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home is an even more intensely felt warning to the general public about the conflicts between our ...
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Arlie Russell Hochschild - The Second Shift, Chapter 4, "Joey's Problem". In The Second Shift, Hochschild studies the ways in which couples negotiate ...
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John Badalament: Modern Dads, The Second Shift and Seven Tips ...
Modern Dads, The Second Shift and Seven Tips - The Huffington Post
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Human rights ... A window to Nepal
The very meaning of work in the home has been changed. In earlier times, a woman's claim to honour was based primarily on her central position in her home. ...
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About the author (1990)

Arlie Russell Hochschild, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of two New York Times Notable Books of the Year, THE SECOND SHIFT and THE MANAGED HEART. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. Her articles have appeared in Harper's, Mother Jones, and Psychology Today, among others. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, the writer Adam Hochschild.