Two decades into the feminist revolution, with most mothers in the paid work force, a working mother is still widely considered a contradiction and a strain. The term working father is unknown, nor is anyone proposing a daddy track to ease the stresses between fatherhood and career. For 25 år siden udkom bogen The Second Shift af Arlie Hochschild. Hochschild undersøger kønsrollemønstre i familier, hvor både mor og far går på arbejde. De familier, der medvirker i bogen, er interviewet op gennem 1980erne. Bogens forfatter beskriver rollefordelingen i familierne således: Women, Ms. Hochschild reports, bear the brunt of what she calls a stalled revolution, one that got wives out of the home and into the first shift of paid employment but resulted in surprisingly meager change during the domestic second shift. The wife, her research confirms, typically is still the primary parent and remains ultimately responsible for keeping house. De seneste danske tal viser, at kvinder i snit arbejder en time mere i hjemmet end mændene. Hver dag. Det giver ca. 15 dages ekstra arbejde til kvinderne om året. Og lur mig, om ikke det ville vise sig, hvis vi interviewede mænd og kvinder i dag, at det stadig er kvinderne der har det primære ansvar for hjemmet (madpakker, tøjvask, fødselsdagsgaver, indkøb, rengøring...), mens manden hælder olie på bilen, går tur med hunden og klipper hækken.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:14:45 +0000
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