Ch.7 Gender Difference in Work/Life

It's no secret that men and women communicate differently, however the way they communicate also has implications for the ways that men and women negotiate their work and their personal lives. Woman have always assumed the role of caregiver and assume most of the responsibility for domestic labor at home on top of there responsibility's at their jobs outside of home. Arlie Hochschild has called this phenomenon the second shift.

According to the text the term captures the amount of labor that women perform in the private sphere for which they receive little compensation or gratitude. Women who work outside of home do twice the amount of housework then their male partners who also works outside the household. I believe it's much more difficult to be a working mother then a working father. Sadly most of the household responsibility's are still placed on women and they are forced to do twice the amount of work. My dad does help out as much as he can like cooking dinner and cleaning up once and a while but for some families it is all on the mother. Right when she gets off from an 8hr work day she is forced to work at home with little help.