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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A guide for career women who also find themselves shouldering a disproportionate amount of household work offers marital advice, discussing such topics as multitasking, sources of conflict, and mutually satisfying sex.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From gender expert and professional facilitator Kate Mangino comes Equal Partners, an informed guide about how we can all collectively work to undo harmful gender norms and create greater household equity.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journalist-turned-psychologist Darcy Lockman offers a clear-eyed look at the most pernicious problem facing modern parents -- how progressive relationships become traditional ones when children are introduced into the household. In an era of seemingly unprecedented feminist activism, enlightenment, and change, data shows that one area of gender inequality stubbornly persists: the disproportionate amount of parental work that falls to women, no matter...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her ultra-viral article 'Women Aren't Nags--We're Just Fed Up,' ... Gemma Hartley gave ... voice to the frustration and anger experienced by countless women. Now, in Fed Up, Hartley expands outward from the everyday frustrations of performing thankless emotional labor to illuminate how the expectation to do this work in all arenas--private and public--fuels gender inequality, limits our opportunities, steals our time, and adversely affects the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A scathing, deeply-researched foray into the invisible, uncompensated work women perform every day 'Emotional labor.' The term might sound familiar. . .but what does it mean exactly? Initially used to describe the unnamed yet crucial labor flight attendants did to make guests feel welcomed and safe, the phrase has burst into the national lexicon in recent years. The examples, whispered among friends and posted online, are endless. A woman is tasked...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
ix, 339 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible work she was doing for her family -- and then sent that list to her husband, asking for things to change. His response was... underwhelming. Rodsky realized that simply identifying the issue of unequal labor on the home front wasn't enough: She needed a solution to this universal...
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxix, 465 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
This work of reference represents a remarkably complete, detailed and extensive review of the field of gender, work and organization in the second decade of the 21st century. Its authors represent eight countries and many disciplines including management, sociology, political science, and gender studies. The chapters, by top scholars in their areas of expertise, offer both reviews and empirical findings, and insights and challenges for further work....
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 300 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A cautionary analysis of the state of American manhood contends that today's men are losing jobs, forfeiting their educations, and leading increasingly single and isolated lives in their preference for recreational and virtual existences.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First English-language edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 207 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Emma reflects on social and feminist issues by means of simple line drawings, dissecting the mental load, i.e. all that invisible and unpaid organizing, list-making and planning women do to manage their lives, and the lives of their family members. Most of us carry some form of mental load--about our work, household responsibilities, financial obligations and personal life; but what makes up that burden and how it's distributed within households and...
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