Crunch time : how married couples confront unemployment /

"In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Traditionally gendered understandings of work--that it's a requirement for men a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rao, Aliya Hamid (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Unemployed > Sex differences.
Unemployed > Family relationships > Social aspects.
Married people > Employment > Psychological aspects.
Upper class families > Economic aspects.
Chômeurs > Différences entre sexes.
Chômeurs > Relations familiales > Aspect social.
Couples > Travail > Aspect psychologique.
Familles de la classe supérieure > Aspect économique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family
Married people > Employment > Psychological aspects
chores.
college education.
downsizing.
dual income family.
economics.
employment.
gender norms.
gender.
gendered work.
household labor.
housework.
job candidate.
job search.
layoffs.
marriage.
mens unemployment.
mens work.
nonfiction.
unemployment.
women in the workforce.
womens studies.
womens unemployment.
womens work.
working women.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a tale of two unemployments
  • Men at home: reconfiguring space during mens unemployment
  • Idealizing the home and spurning the workplace?
  • Dinner table diaries
  • Can women be ideal job-seekers?
  • Why dont unemployed men do more housework?
  • Why do unemployed women do even more housework?
  • Conclusion: unemployment and inequality in an age of uncertainty.

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