An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains to be relevant a lot more than twenty years following its original publication.

More than two decades back, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley, teacher Arlie Hochschild tripped a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with his bestselling publication, The Second Change. In it, she examined what really occurs in dual-career households. Adding together amount of time in paid function, child care, and housework, she discovered that operating mothers devote a month of function a year a lot more than their spouses. Up to date for a workforce now half feminine, this model cites a variety of fresh studies and figures and includes a brand-new afterword where Hochschild assesses how much-and how little-has changed for ladies today.