Question

Amy is a married woman with children. she and her partner alan both work full-time jobs. when they come home, amy makes dinner, cleans, and tends to the children for the evening. alan helps with these things sometimes, but many days he rests after work. if arlie hochschild saw this household, she would say amy is experiencing the:

Answer 1

Arlie Hochschild would describe this as second shift. In a book by Hochschild written in 1989 she described that women who work full time outside the home often come home and tend to the duties of the house and children that add up to a second 40 hour per week job, thus she called it second shift.