The Synchronization of the Genders within Families

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Working women with families are often lead to inhabit several different lives all at once. In article “The Second Shift,” Arlie Hochschild discusses how women who have families and work are often subjected to having to stay a full time housewife along with their job, creating basically two sets of work, as the author calls it, the Second Shift. I think that the authors’s style of using many studies and examples helps to strengthen his points. Although he doesn’t directly express his opinion of the issue as much which weakens it to an extent but also helps to have the reader form their own opinion using the issues discussed. His use of vocabulary helps to express his opinion onto the issues discussed as it shows to be more sophisticated whenever he writes on supporting his own side of the issue. Hochschild doesn’t wait to get to the point when discussing the topics. He uses many studies and facts to help argue his points and is used efficiently, but also in a way it’s also ineffective as the lack of studies and facts that have used that would even try to support the other side of the discussion. I agree to the author's argument of how even families should continue evolving along side with the economy, to help couples to support one another as equals, rather then opposites with specific assignments.

Working women who filed for divorce often say its because their husband’s lack of support. Women in these positions are often forced to work much more then the other side of the couple, as they do most of the work at home. In the beginning when women just started to begin to work, they would accept responsibility that they have to work as a homemaker and at their regular jobs all on their own. But as the jobs available to women become ...

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...place for women evolve, I think the traditions of family and public child care should help to evolve with them. As husbands and wives taking in the housework equally, to help iron out the stress within their lives, couples should evolve to interconnect with each other in a way where they see themselves more as equals who both are working and supporting each other rather then opposites who are assigned to only work to bring money in as the other does everything else around the house

Works Cited

Hochschild, Arlie. "The Second Shift: Employed Women Are Putting in Another Day of Work at Home." 1989. The Little Brown Reader. Ed. Marcia Stubbs, Sylvan Barnet, and William E. Cain. 11th ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2009. 166-71. Print.

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