Second Shift

The #1 Country To Be A Woman Of (Slightly More) Leisure

The Huffington Post | Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Best Country for Women, Women's Rights, Gender Gap, Second Shift, Household Chores, Best Place to Live as a Woman, 2011 Global Gender Gap Report, Unpaid Labor, Global Gender Gap Report, Slidepollajax, Women News

We already knew from the World Economic Forum's 2011 Global Gender Gap Report that, according to criteria like health, economic and educational partic...

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A Care Revolution... in America?

Katrina Alcorn | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Stress, Gender Revolution, Second Shift, Feminism, Working Mothers, Parents, Working Moms, Parents News
Katrina Alcorn

A new version of "The Second Shift" just came out last month. The author compares the status of working mothers around the time the book was first published to where we are now.

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Give Mom a Break

Tony Schwartz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Renewal, Arlie Hochschild, Catalyst, Balance, Mother's Day, Second Shift, Healthy Living News
Tony Schwartz

I'm awed by the complex lives that so many women I know -- most especially the single mothers -- manage with such grace. I'm also aware what they sacrifice, which is most often themselves.

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