Lia Maria Sepe, age 7, attends online classes from her front yard, as her mother, Raquel, looks on. Photo: Brian Snyder/REUTERS Women more often do two things at once, sociologist Arlie Hochschild found in 1989. They “write checks and return phone calls, vacuum and keep an eye on the 3-year-old, fold laundry and think out the shopping list,” she wrote in The Second Shift. The tasks add up, and so does the stress. As Hochschild pursued her research, she arrived at an unfortunate conclusion.
Yet the plan has its detractors,. At The Week, commentator Bonnie Kristian argued that Biden’s plan to ease the parental path to work is “not what most lower-income and working-class Americans want.” Taking matters a step further in a Wall Street Journal editorial, Hillbilly Elegy author and probable Senate candidate J.D.
Why, then, are some on the right so eager for one parent to stay home? The pandemic isn’t the only force propelling women out of the workforce. No woman makes a child by herself. Someone still has to answer the phone and vacuum the house and fold the laundry, and that someone is usually a woman. In her 2012 afterword to the revised edition of The Second Shift, Hochschild wrote that circumstances for women have improved. Men have become much more willing to pick up chores and help with children.
Ready to make a change? Thread with details:
onesarahjones wow. i read that as 'sexiest backlash' and was very confused for a moment.
onesarahjones The right does not want women to make decisions on their own bodies but wants them to bear children to work and pay social security for them when they get older.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.