The Second Shift
by Arlie Russell Hochschild, Anne Machung · Arlie Hochschild
Sociological study of dual-earner American households, based on interviews and home observation, showing that women perform an extra month of unpaid labor each year. Names the family myths couples use to explain away that imbalance.
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