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Running Head: THE SECOND SHIFT

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The Second Shift
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THE SECOND SHIFT

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What is the second shift, and how does it relate to a leisure gap between husbands and
wives?
The second shift is a concept that explains the second part of the work that a mother does
when she comes home from work. It includes all the housekeeping duties as well as all the
responsibilities involved in taking care of the entire family at home. This comes in where both
the husband and wife have formal or informal jobs, but the wife seems to be more involved in
household chore than the husband. This imbalance can be highly attributed to the traditional
gender roles whereby you find that the wife is at the centre of almost every duty when they both
come home after work (Russell & Machung, 1989). The wife cooks; washes dishes, does all the
laundry work, and also does the babysitting and feeding of the kids. This is an issue that has
brought about many discussions about how the household chores should be shared between the
wife and husband, considering that they all came home tired and fatigued from work. In many
cases, husbands will go to work, come home, and then relax, but women will always continue
working when they get home for work that they don’t get paid for. This, in a way, p...