The Second Shift

By Meredith Mitchell, M. Bowman, E. Frank. 2002

1,373 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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2. Paul R. Amato
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4. Patricia Cortés
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Citations in the corpus

• Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market (2020, positive): “Finally, wives in such couples take on a greater share of the housework, consistent with the idea that a “threatening” wife compensates by taking on more housework to assuage their husband’s unease with the situation (Hochschild and Machung, 1989).”
• Gay Fathers Expanding the Possibilities for Us All (2005, background): “It would shift the unfair burden of the second shift (Hochschild, 1989) and decrease the high levels of stress and depression in working mothers.”
• Bargaining With Patriarchy (2010, background): “She argued that most women work for pay as well as work a second shift at home (i.e., cooking, cleaning, laundry, etc.), and that this trend was prominent regardless of whether women had children (Hochschild, 1989, p.4).”
• A Test of the Biographical Availability Argument for Gender Differences in Environmental Behaviors (2014, background): “Indeed, this relates directly to the second shift (Hochschild, 1989), whereby (in presumably heterosexual two-adult households) women devote significantly more of their time than do men to household activities (e.”
• Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households (2013, background): “Marianne Bertrand Booth School of Business University of Chicago”
• Being important matters: The impact of work and family centralities on the family-to-work conflict–satisfaction relationship (2012, result): “This demographic distribution of our sample is consistent with research showing that although women have increased their participation in the workforce, they still take on the lion’s share of the household responsibilities, such as picking up and dropping off their children (Hochschild, 1989).”
• Balancing Parenthood and Academia (2005, background): “A number of studies have indicated that women continue to carry the primary burden of child care and household responsibilities (Bielby & Bielby, 1989; Biernat & Wortman, 1991; Hochschild, 1989).”
• Perceived Housework Equity, Marital Happiness, and Divorce in Dual-Earner Households (2003, background): “Marital quality is strongly associated with the risk of divorce (e.g., White & Booth, 1991), and there is speculation that dissatisfaction with household labor arrangements may diminish marital satisfaction and increase a couple’s odds of divorce (Hochschild & Machung, 1989).”