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It's about Time - Couples and Careers (Paperback)
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It's about Time - Couples and Careers (Paperback)
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How do two-career couples manage in a one-career world?It's about
Time examines this mismatch between outdated scripts and the
experiences of dual-earner couples. It broadens our understanding
of occupational and family career strategies couples use in light
of the widening gap between their real lives and the outdated
work-hour and career-path roles, rules, and regulations they
confront. It's about Time draws on the data from the Cornell
Couples and Careers Study to demonstrate that: *Regardless of
income, time is a scarce commodity in dual-earner households. With
two jobs, two commutes, often long work hours, high job demands,
business travel, several cars, children, ailing relatives, and/or
pets - time is always an issue.*Time is built into jobs and career
paths in ways that make continuous full-time (40 or typically more
hours a week) paid work a fact of life in American society. *The
multiple strands of life career, family and personal unfold over
time. Spouses move through their life courses in tandem, with early
choices - to have children or not, to work long hours or not, to
switch jobs or not, to relocate for his or her career or not all
having long-term consequences for life quality and for gender
inequality.The evidence from this book suggests that it is about
time for the United States to confront the realities and needs of
contemporary working couples and indeed, all members of the new
workforce. To do so requires more than Band-Aid, short-term (and
often short-sighted) policy remedies. It's about Time argues that
it is essential to re-imagine and reconfigure work hours,
workweeks, and occupational career paths in ways that address the
widening gaps between the time needs and goals of workers and their
families, at all ages and stages of the life course."
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