Analysis Of The Second Shift: Working Parents And The Revolution At Home
The Second Shift
“I am a working mother. I am nuts,” proclaims an unkempt cartoon woman on a mug. Surrounded by mounds of papers, a crying baby, and a broom, she is exhausted but resolute. What is held up as absurd in this cartoon is not the economic necessity of her working or her husband’s failure to help. It is her own choice to work that makes her an object of cheerful self-mocking.
In THE SECOND SHIFT: WORKING PARENTS AND THE REVOLUTION AT HOME, Arlie Hochschild holds up to the light this and many other strategies by which women and men in two-career marriages juggle work pressures and family needs. Between 1980 and 1988, Hochschild and her research associates interviewed fifty couples at great length. Hochschild also observed family …show more content…
Hochschild concludes that American men and women must learn to revalue the work of nurturing children, that men must become more Leeply egalitarian, and that public policy must be shaped to support rather than undermine these changes.
The Second Shift
The Second Shift : Working Parents and the Revolution at Home written by Arlie Hochschild is a work of research that investigates the strife of a marriage with a two-job family . The book relates lives of researched couples and their problem with the second shift ' which in this case is the work after work , the housework and childcare . The author followed fifty families and interviewed the parents for ten years or more . Her findings and conclusions about the
effect of two-job families on the couples ' marriages are recorded in this …show more content…
It is a picture of grace , confidence , and power . She also refers to statistics based on the actual time spent by working moms and determined they worked an extra month of twenty-four hour days a year (3 She is intent to illustrate the reality behind the flying hair illusion , as well as document the disparity of the second shift workload . She approaches her research by discussing the role of gender family myths and illusions , as well as what she believes is the cultural cover-up (11-32 . She sets out to explore the reality of the division of labor in the various couples , as well as the individual couple 's background and attitudes . She does so without seeming to have an agenda . Her main thesis and focus is the economic or social reason for more women...
As an idealistic professor of sociology at the University of California over three decades ago Arlie Hochschild 's believed she could fulfill all her personal and professional aspirations . However Hochschild 's soon discovered reality and the beset laid plans were on a collision course . Much to her chagrin Hochschild 's was faced with an unexpected contentious barrier to her desired serenity and achievement The culprit ? Gender . Hochschild 's learned that it would take herculean effort to balance family life , her academic career and
“I am a working mother. I am nuts,” proclaims an unkempt cartoon woman on a mug. Surrounded by mounds of papers, a crying baby, and a broom, she is exhausted but resolute. What is held up as absurd in this cartoon is not the economic necessity of her working or her husband’s failure to help. It is her own choice to work that makes her an object of cheerful self-mocking.
In THE SECOND SHIFT: WORKING PARENTS AND THE REVOLUTION AT HOME, Arlie Hochschild holds up to the light this and many other strategies by which women and men in two-career marriages juggle work pressures and family needs. Between 1980 and 1988, Hochschild and her research associates interviewed fifty couples at great length. Hochschild also observed family …show more content…
Hochschild concludes that American men and women must learn to revalue the work of nurturing children, that men must become more Leeply egalitarian, and that public policy must be shaped to support rather than undermine these changes.
The Second Shift
The Second Shift : Working Parents and the Revolution at Home written by Arlie Hochschild is a work of research that investigates the strife of a marriage with a two-job family . The book relates lives of researched couples and their problem with the second shift ' which in this case is the work after work , the housework and childcare . The author followed fifty families and interviewed the parents for ten years or more . Her findings and conclusions about the
effect of two-job families on the couples ' marriages are recorded in this …show more content…
It is a picture of grace , confidence , and power . She also refers to statistics based on the actual time spent by working moms and determined they worked an extra month of twenty-four hour days a year (3 She is intent to illustrate the reality behind the flying hair illusion , as well as document the disparity of the second shift workload . She approaches her research by discussing the role of gender family myths and illusions , as well as what she believes is the cultural cover-up (11-32 . She sets out to explore the reality of the division of labor in the various couples , as well as the individual couple 's background and attitudes . She does so without seeming to have an agenda . Her main thesis and focus is the economic or social reason for more women...
As an idealistic professor of sociology at the University of California over three decades ago Arlie Hochschild 's believed she could fulfill all her personal and professional aspirations . However Hochschild 's soon discovered reality and the beset laid plans were on a collision course . Much to her chagrin Hochschild 's was faced with an unexpected contentious barrier to her desired serenity and achievement The culprit ? Gender . Hochschild 's learned that it would take herculean effort to balance family life , her academic career and