Care Work, the Second Shift, and Gendered Labor — Quiz

According to Hochschild and Machung's research in The Second Shift, the aggregate domestic labor gap between women and men in dual-earner couples amounted to approximately:

What does cross-national comparison reveal about the size of the motherhood penalty, and what does this suggest about its causes?

In Hochschild's original framework, what distinguishes 'emotional labor' from 'emotion work'?

Correll, Benard, and Paik's experimental study of the motherhood penalty found that, compared to non-mothers with identical résumés, mothers were:

Nancy Folbre's metaphor of 'the invisible heart' refers to:

Which welfare regime type, in Esping-Andersen's typology, is associated with the most extensive public care provision and the smallest gender gaps in labor-force participation?

The concept of 'care drain' in the global care chains literature refers to:

Budig and England's 2001 analysis estimated the US wage penalty per child for mothers at approximately:

According to the module, why did Scandinavian 'daddy month' reforms produce larger increases in fathers' parental leave uptake than simply making leave available to either parent?

Explain what Hochschild meant by 'family myths' and give one example from The Second Shift of how a couple might use such a myth.

What is 'social reproduction' and why do feminist scholars argue that its invisibility in standard economic accounts is a problem?

Drawing on at least four of the concepts and authors covered in this module, analyze the claim that 'the distribution of care work is the unfinished business of gender equality.' Your essay should address both the household level and the broader political-economic level, and should consider at least one dimension of inequality beyond gender (such as race, class, or nationality).