
- 308 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Crunch Time
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Unemployments
- PART I GENDER AND SPACE DURING UNEMPLOYMENT
- PART II GENDERED TIME IN JOB SEARCHING
- PART III GENDERED TIME IN HOUSEWORK
- Conclusion: Unemployment and Inequality in an Age of Uncertainty
- Appendix A: Methodology
- Appendix B: Interview Guide for Unemployed Professionals and Spouses
- Notes
- References
- Index