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...member of the Harvard Society of Fellows—a University group aimed to “give men and women at an early stage of their scholarly careers an opportunity to pursue their studies in any department...free from formal requirements,” according to its Web site—before obtaining his professorship...
...study, conducted by two Ivy League economists, looked at single women who had been coaxed into working outside the home by the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and what activities they had cut back on when they started doing paid work. By examining time-allocation studies from 1975 to 2004, the researchers found that single mothers who joined the workforce reported spending the same amount of time with their children, and only a little less time on leisure activities or sleep. The women made up most of the time - more than two-thirds of it - by doing less work around...
...authored the study with Harvard doctoral fellow Joshua Mitchell. "There was a perception that these mothers were idle and it would be good to get them to be productive. Our study suggests they have traded one kind of productive activity for another." The EITC encouraged low-income women to enter the paid workforce partly by refunding the tax the women paid on their earnings as well as reducing the payroll tax for employers. When Gelber and Mitchell crunched the time-allocation numbers for single moms, they found that for every hour worked outside the home in response to lower taxes...
There's no firm consensus on the minimal number of hours a week it takes to run a home. But in a 2008 study by the University of Michigan, married women with more than three kids reported doing an average of about 28 hours of housework a week, while married men with more than three kids reported putting in about 10 hours. So it's reasonable to assume that single mothers, who have to go it alone, face a significant amount of labor after they get home from work. (See iPhone apps for new moms...
Increased participation in the workforce by women of all income levels and marital status in recent decades helps explain why the home-organization industry has proved pretty resilient in the recession. Demand for products that help working moms deal with what is commonly referred to as the second shift - i.e., all the work they have to do after they get home from work - is projected to increase 4.3% annually to $8.9 billion in 2013, according to the Freedonia Group, a market-research company...