TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rao,Aliya Hamid
TI  - Crunch time: how married couples confront unlemployment 
SN  - 9780520970670
AV  - HD5708 .C786 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Unemployed
KW  - Sex differences
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Married people
KW  - Employment
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Upper class families
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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