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

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"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"--

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