In sociologist Arlie Hochschild’s (1989) book called “ The Second Shift ”‚ she talks about women that arrive home from a day’s work and do household and child care in what she terms the second shift. Hochschild interviewed fifty couples very intensively and observed in a dozen homes and she found three types of ideologies of marital roles: traditional‚ transitional‚ and egalitarian. As to traditional gender ideology‚ men are considered responsible for earn money. They take their works seriously‚
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about being exhausted from working‚ multi-tasking‚ and solely taking care of the house-hold‚ while their husbands worked and bring forth a paycheck and think that is efficient enough and his job is pretty much done. ‘’I definitely concur with The Second Shift because this essay most women can really relate to‚ including me. It filters the contribution of what the husband brings to the house-hold versus the woman. It makes me ponder about why our husbands are letting us become husbands”. The author‚
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Wei Liu 4/12/11 Second Shift For my Second Shift assignment the working parents that I interviewed were my own parents. Both of my parents do house work after coming home from work. They have duties that they are expected to do. When something is broken‚ it is my dad or me that fix it. Me and my dad always carry the heavy things and do the heavy work. Sometimes I do have to do it alone when my parents can’t do it. My mom always cleans and does most of the cooking in the house. When
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In the article‚ The Second Shift‚ Arlie Hochschild explains that the household responsibilities that a wife and mother takes care of‚ aside from working her paid job‚ roughly adds up to fifteen hours longer each week than men( Hochschild‚ 259). The article asserts that even though both parents have careers‚ it’s usually the mom who also works the second shift at home. The second shift included household chores in addition of working outside the home (Hochschild‚ 260). One reason why women feel the
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Good Housekeeping the “Second Shift” Abstract: Within the last half century‚ the number of women participating in the workforce has increased exponentially. Women are gaining more and more equality in the social‚ economic and political affairs‚ but gender inequity within the home regarding the division of household labor remains. Women are still primarily responsible for housework and childcare. Arlie Russell Hochschild’s concept of the “second shift” describes the situation of many women
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Being a mother is a job of its own‚ in consequence being a working mother is an even greater job. It never dawned on me that mothers work a second shift. Second shift work is the unpaid work women do after their paid work is done. You will think that as adults‚ we all have responsibilities and duties‚ but men responsibilities and duties differ a great deal from women. As difficult as it is for woman to maintain due to inequality‚ you will think that once home‚ a mother can at least lie down and rest
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effective because it allowed me to list my task from the begging to the end of my shift. By using this strategy it ensured I would not leave any of my tasks out of my paper. One thing I would do differently is give a brief description of the type of clients I worked with. I would also give a history on the program I worked for. My purpose for writing this essay was to inform my audience about the position of a second shift Residential Counselor. My audience is my class mates and
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Drawing on the work of Arlie Hochschild‚ I will argue that Hochschild’s theory of emotion management best describes my experience. Emotions were internally judged by myself and therefore‚ attempted to changed based on the cultural context I was in and the interaction I was engaged in. This essay will discuss how emotion work occurred during an everyday interaction to maintain feeling rules. Therefore‚ changing the display of emotion appropriate for the situation. Emotion work as Hochschild calls
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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
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