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Second Shift and the Gendered Division of Household Labor

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In the 1980s, sociologist Arlie Hochschild found that working mothers put in approximately one month of extra 24-hour days per year of housework and childcare compared to their husbands.

Why this is interesting

When you come home from work and still have to cook dinner, wash dishes, and help with homework, you are doing a 'second shift.' That extra, unpaid work is secretly shaping gender inequality.