![]() ![]() Molly, the American suburban mother at the centre of Helen Phillips’s novel, hasn’t read Hochschild, but then she doesn’t have time. In effect, women in employment are pulling double shifts, and their unpaid labour is subsidising the men who live with them – or rather, live off them. So, as men were clocking off and chilling out, their wives and girlfriends were clocking back in for an evening of domestic duty: the cooking and the cleaning, the laundry and the to-do lists, the shopping and the shuttling between childminder and swimming classes. Women’s lives were transformed, she found, but the men they shared their homes with were stubbornly unchanging in their habits. W hen women entered the workforce en masse in the 1980s, sociologist Arlie Hochschild called it the “second shift”. ![]()
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