The Third Shift by Michele Bolton is a study of the phenomena working women experience. The first shift is their actual paying job, the second is coming home to take care of a family, and the third is the continual thoughts and insecurities about not doing a good job at any one thing because of being spread too thin.
Bolton,Michele Kremen,The Third Shift, Managing Hard Choices in Our Careers, Homes,and Lives as Women (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,2000).
Topic: Should the Obama administration work to eliminate pay inequality for women?
Category: Academic
Support: Case studies of women in high-stress positions conducted between 1993 and 1996; Center to Develop Women Entrepreneurs at San Jose State; ExecutiveEdge of Silicon Valley, “The Vendor of Choice for Leaders at the Top.”
Source Analysis:The publisher,Jossey-Bass, is A Wiley Company. The company’s home page boasts “setting the standards for science, medical, technical and scholarly publishing. The Third Shift is part of their Business and Management Series. The author is a Ph.D., mother, wife,founding partner of ExecutiveEdge of Silicon Valley, and a “recovering academic.” Ms. Bolton also helped co-found the Center to Develop Women Entrepreneurs at San Jose State University.
Usefulness: This work is very useful to my topic. Ms. Bolton claims that many women stay away form ” the top” in their careers because they are afraid of what people may think of them. They are also under immense pressure to succeed in more than one arena, namely work, home,and family. Using women she has worked with and counseled, she builds the basis for the claim that women shoulder most of the responsibility for making everything work. These women typically end up ” burned out” after years of leaving high-stress jobs to go home to high-stress family lives. They have trouble sleeping, with thoughts plaguing them about not being good enough at one aspect of their lives. Ms. Bolton also states that men do not usually have the same trouble separating their work and family lives, possibly because they do not share the same standards. If this is true, women certainly deserve at least equal compensation for work that they do.
Works Cited: Bolton, Michele Kremen The Third Shift Managing Hard Choices In Our Careers, Homes ,and Lives as Women. (San Francisco:Jossey-Bass,2000.)
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