SOCB22H3 Lecture 6: Week 6 reading notes
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The second shift: employed women are putting in another day of work at home: Problems between couples, problems that seem unique or marital , are often the individual ripples of powerful economic and cultural shock waves. Quarrels between husbands and wives in households across the nation result mainly from a friction between faster changing women and slower changing men. Most workplaces have remained inflexible in the face of the changing needs of workers with families, and most men have yet to really adapt to the changes in women. The writer, calls the strain caused by the disparity between the change in women and the absence of change elsewhere the stalled revolution . Over the past 30 years in the us, more and more women have begun to work outside the home, and more have divorced. Whether they were traditional or more egalitarian in their relationship, couples were happier when the men did a sizable share of housework and childcare.
