The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality

by Kathleen Gerson and Jerry Jacobs

In a panoramic study that draws on diverse sources, Jerry Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson explain why and how time pressures have emerged and what we can do to alleviate them. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that all Americans are overworked, they show that time itself has become a form of social inequality that is dividing Americans in new ways - between the overworked and the underemployed, women and men, parents and non-parents. They piece together...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674011538
• ISBN13: 9780674011533
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.7"