Rao, Aliya Hamid 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0674-4206
(2020)
Crunch time: how married couples confront unemployment.
University of California Press, Oakland, CA.
ISBN 9780520298606
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520298606/crunch-... |
| Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author |
| Divisions: | Methodology |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Aug 2022 09:39 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 22:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/115976 |
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