Hochschild Podcast

Question 1

Where did she get her idea of the second shift from?

Answer 1

A woman she worked with (worked all day and worked at home at night)

She said: life at home has become a second shift

Question 2

What was her study on the second shift?

Answer 2

Go to fortune 500 company, send out questionnaire if they were willing to be interviewed
(made case study of them)

• Studied married women (both working)
  
  • had kids 6 and under

Noticed: Women spent more time dealing with children and house,

often did two things at once (laundry and on the phone),

women going home to do most housework and raise children,

at work (strict time schedules)

Question 3

What were the happiest families?

Answer 3

Ones who came to an agreement on what a mans role and what a womans role was
- Who shared the second shift

Question 4

How does she think we should amend the stalled revolution?

Answer 4

Men need to be able to do what women have done
and women do what men have done