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Article: Too many hours - too little pay: the impact of market and household hours on women's work lives.
- Article from:
- Journal of Economic Issues
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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As a society we have been loathed to acknowledge the chronic overwork that plagues the American household, preferring to romanticize the role of housewife and mother. Yet the shortage of time is not merely a problem of our paying jobs - we spend just as much time working inside the home as we do outside of it.
- Juliet B. Schor, 1991.
Work has many components. For many women, the great divide is the number of hours spent in the paid labor force relative to the number of hours working in the household. As the number of hours women commit to the labor market expands, there is a potential for a nurturance gap [Stanfield and Stanfield 1997] as the family unit ...