Crunch time : how married couples confront unemployment / Aliya Hamid Rao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rao, Aliya Hamid, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unemployed--Sex differences.

Unemployed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Tale of Two Unemployments

1. Men at Home

2. Idealizing the Home and Spurning the Workplace?

3. Dinner Table Diaries

4. Can Women Be Ideal Job-Seekers?

5. Why Don’t Unemployed Men Do More Housework?

6. Why Do Unemployed Women Do Even More Housework?

Conclusion: Unemployment and Inequality in an Age of Uncertainty

Appendix A: Methodology

Appendix B: Interview Guide for Unemployed Professionals and Spouses.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's web site, viewed June 23, 2020).

ISBN:

9780520970670

0520970675

OCLC:

1137737985