Word: careering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer career-development programs offered by the Education School's Programs in Professional Education (PPE) to a nationwide audience of college and secondary school educators and administrators...
...seems likely that sociologist Arlie Hochschild's The Second Shift (Viking; $18.95) will turn up in empty fridges, on piles of undone laundry and taped to "I'm long gone, George" notes left on breakfast tables. It is dire stuff, whose thesis is that in normal, modern two-career marriages, most men -- even those who talk equality -- do not really do much child rearing, cooking, cleaning, food shopping, or enough other chores to count...
...enchantress in the passenger seat. Reality is deadly stuff. What men do is put in long hours in front of the tube, thanklessly exposing their eyeballs to radiation because not to know at work the next day precisely how the Red Sox lost yet another game is to risk career prolapsus. Working women may still spend three hours a day doing housework and their husbands only 17 minutes, as a 1965-66 study cited in The Second Shift claims. But watching baseball is hard, dull work -- nobody likes it -- and it takes a lot of time. Look, can we talk...
...funny. What Hochschild describes, in fact, is so gloomy, at least for two-career couples who are trying to raise children, that the information should be withheld from the young, or the race may not reproduce. It may not anyway, since the two-career marriage means the certain end of weekday sex, and toil-sharing men are known to be subject to Saturday-night headaches...
...little experience, she says, can be valuable for students who are interested in pursuing a career in architecture--especially if they decide they don't like...