How Did The Double Shift Somehow Become The Triple Burden?
Women’s work just keeps expanding.
5 min readAug 24, 2021
When I was studying sociology back in the 1980’s my teacher put a lot of emphasis on what sociologists were then referring to as the double shift. This was a phenomenon whereby women who worked full-time still did the majority of the housework and childcare, effectively resulting in around eight hours of…