Gender Roles In Hochschild's Second Shift

Hochschild’s Second Shift, goes into depth discussion of how most woman takes on the primary role in the “Second Shift” how the second shift affects marriages. The term "second shift" is another way of describing the labor performed at home in addition to the paid work performed in the formal sector. In The Second Shift, Hochschild interviewed fifty couples and observed in homes in an effort to explore the "leisure gap" between men and women. Within Hochschild research of the “Second Shift”, the concept of gender roles is widely discussed. Hochschild found that despite the fact that many women work outside the home, woman remains responsible for household chores and the primary caretakers of children. The Second Shift found that women still …show more content…
Traditional is the belief that the husband’s role should be as sole breadwinner and the wife’s role should be as sole homemaker. Woman who believes in the traditional ideology usually “wants to identify with her activities at home” such being wife, a mother, and a neighborhood mom, resulting in having less power than her husband. Women who believe in the egalitarian ideology expects that men and women shares equal roles within their careers and families, and share power within marriage equally. The transitional ideology in which the husband identifies as the primary breadwinner who supports his wife’s desire to work (to help earn money) as long as she also identifies primarily with the home. Transitional women want to balance work and family for themselves while they want their husbands to identify with work, while transitional men want to identify with work and expect their working wives to balance the demands of work and …show more content…
Conflicts between the demands of work and family are treated as personal issues of individual women instead of treated as social problems shared by women and by women and men. Consequences behind this leads to higher divorce rates which trickles down to have affect on the children within the family. Children of divorce experience lasting tension as a result of the increasing differences in their parent’s values and ideas. At a young age they must make mature decisions regarding their beliefs and values. Children of so- called “good divorces” fare worse emotionally than children who grew up in an unhappy but “low-conflict” marriage. Children raised in intact married families are more likely to attend college are physically and emotionally healthier are less likely to be physically or sexually abused are less likely to use drugs or alcohol and to commit delinquent behaviors have a

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