The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home by Arlie Hochschild & Anne Machung

Author:Arlie Hochschild & Anne Machung [Hochschild, Arlie & Machung, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Social Science, Sociology, Parenting, Family & Relationships, Marriage & Family, Women's Studies
ISBN: 0143120336
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

“I HAVE AN MBA!”

The main strategy that either Carol or Greg pursued was Carol’s quitting her full-time job, and this had important consequences for her. As she explained: “After Daryl was born, I stayed home for six months, and I discovered how much of my self-esteem was wrapped up in money. Being out of work, I felt really inferior. When I went out to the supermarket in the morning, I felt fat [she hadn’t lost the weight from her pregnancy] and dumb. I wanted to go up to the people in the aisles and say, ‘I have an MBA! I have an MBA!’ I didn’t want to be classified as a dumb housewife.”

Like an urbanized peasant might feel returning to a land he had ambivalently left behind, Carol now felt a mixture of scorn, envy, and compassion for the housewives shopping in the market. She mused: “I learned not to judge. Whereas before, if I saw a woman with a kid, I would think, ‘What is she doing? Why isn’t she doing something productive with her life?’ I think I was partly jealous, too. You go into the store in the middle of the day, there are all these thirty-year-olds shopping. I mean, where do they get the money? It made me wonder if there’s some easier way to do this.”

After a while, Carol began to feel an affinity with women who didn’t work outside the home:

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