@article{1478493,
      recid = {1478493},
      author = {Jacobs, Jerry A.,  and Gerson, Kathleen,  and Gornick,  Janet C., },
      title = {The Time Divide : Work, Family, and Gender Inequality /},
      pages = {1 online resource (272 p.)},
      abstract = {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 a compelling story of the increasing  mismatch between our economic system and the needs of  American families, sorting out important trends such as the  rise of demanding jobs and the emergence of new pressures  on dual earner families and single parents. Comparing  American workers with their European peers, Jacobs and  Gerson also find that policies that are simultaneously  family-friendly and gender equitable are not fully realized  in any of the countries they examine. As a consequence,  they argue that the United States needs to forge a new set  of solutions that offer American workers new ways to  integrate work and family life. Table of Contents:  Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Trends in Work,  Family, and Leisure Time 1. Overworked Americans or the  Growth of Leisure? 2. Working Time from the Perspective of  Families Part II: Integrating Work and Family Life 3. Do  Americans Feel Overworked? 4. How Work Spills Over into  Life 5. The Structure and Culture of Work Part III: Work,  Family, and Social Policy 6. American Workers in  Cross-National Perspectivewith Janet C. Gornick 7. Bridging  the Time Divide 8. Where Do We Go from Here? Appendix:  Supplementary Tables Notes References Index Jacobs and  Gerson present the most fine-grained analysis yet offered  of working time and its impacts on families. They  successfully combine sophisticated analyses of quantitative  data with breakthroughs in the conceptualization of work  time. Their focus on household work time and their  incorporation of subjective aspects of work-family conflict  are welcome additions to the study of work time. As a  result of their nuanced treatment, they avoid making  simplistic generalizations that have marked many previous  treatments of this topic.--Rosalind Chait Barnett, Brandeis  University, and co-author of Same Difference: How Myths  About Gender Differences Are Hurting Our Relationships, Our  Children, and Our JobsThis is an outstanding book. It  offers powerful arguments in the debates over work-family  conflict going on in academia and society. The data the  authors bring to bear on the subject offer new insights  that support their analysis and policy recommendations.  Scholars of the workplace and of contemporary American  society as well as public policy advocates must read this  book!--Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, City University of New York,  and co-author of The Part-time Paradox: Time Norms,  Professional Life, Family and GenderThe Time Divide makes a  substantial contribution to the work-family literature and  will be cited often by those with an interest in women's  employment, children's well-being, family functioning, and  work in America. Its appeal will be broad and capture the  attention of policy makers along with academics in a number  of disciplines including sociology, family studies, and  public policy. The book is engagingly written and the logic  of the analysis is sound.--Suzanne Bianchi, University of  Maryland, and co-author of Continuity and Change in the  American FamilyThe main thesis is original and important:  that Americans are not, in general, overworked; rather,  they can be divided into both the overworked and the  underworked. The former are usually found in the upper half  of the occupational distribution, the latter in the lower  half. The overworked wish they could work less.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478493},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674039049},
}