The Time Divide

Work, Family, and Gender Inequality

Jerry A. Jacobs

Kathleen Gerson

  • Honorable Mention 2005 Mirra Komarovsky Award of the Eastern Sociological Society
  • Voted one of the Best Business Books 2005 by Strategy Business Magazine in the Work and Life Category

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Trends in Work, Family, and Leisure Time

1. Overworked Americans or the Growth of Leisure?

2. Working Time from the Perspective of Families

Part II: Integrating Work and Family Life

3. Do Americans Feel Overworked?

4. How Work Spills Over into Life

5. The Structure and Culture of Work

Part III: Work, Family, and Social Policy

6. American Workers in Cross-National Perspective
with Janet C. Gornick

7. Bridging the Time Divide

8. Where Do We Go from Here?

Appendix: Supplementary Tables

Notes

References

Index

  • Cover: The Time Divide
  • A photo of the author

Kathleen Gerson photo by Lorraine Corsale

Jerry Jacobs is Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania.

Kathleen Gerson is Professor of Sociology, New York University.