Description
In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Traditionally gendered understandings of work--that it's a requirement for men and optional for women--loom large in this process, even for marriages that had been not organized in gender-traditional ways. These beliefs serve to make men's unemployment an urgent problem, while women's unemployment--cocooned within a narrative of staying at home--is almost a non-issue. Crunch Time reveals the minutiae of how gendered norms and behaviors are actively maintained by spouses at a time when they could be dismantled, and how gender is central to the ways couples react to and make sense of unemployment.
Author: Aliya Hamid Rao
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 06/09/2020
Pages: 308
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780520298613
ISBN10: 0520298616
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | Marriage & Family
- Family & Relationships | Marriage & Long Term Relationships
- Business & Economics | Labor | General
About the Author
Aliya Hamid Rao is Assistant Professor in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics.