| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 and optional for women--loom large in this process, even for marriages that had been not organized in gender-traditional ways. These beliefs serve to make men's unemployment an urgent problem, while women's unemployment--cocooned within a narrative of staying at home--is almost a non-issue. Crunch Time reveals the minutiae of how gendered norms and behaviors are actively maintained by spouses at a time when they could be dismantled, and how gender is central to the ways couples react to and make sense of unemployment"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
chores |
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college education |
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downsizing |
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dual income family |
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economics |
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employment |
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gender norms |
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gender |
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gendered work |
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household labor |
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housework |
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job candidate |
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job search |
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layoffs |
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marriage |
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mens unemployment |
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mens work |
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nonfiction |
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unemployment |
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women in the workforce |
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womens studies |
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womens unemployment |
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womens work |
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working women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 28, 2020) |
| Subject |
Unemployed -- Sex differences
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Unemployed -- Family relationships -- Social aspects
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Married people -- Employment -- Psychological aspects
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Upper class families -- Economic aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family
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Married people -- Employment -- Psychological aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019059487 |
| ISBN |
0520970675 |
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9780520970670 |
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