While the second shift does present some awkward challenges most of us would prefer to avoid.
Such as how many kids you have, do you work weekends, travel distance to work, relationship status, etc. Like any shift work situation and roster arrangement, there is a HUGE variation in opinions on the 2nd shift depending on individual circumstances. Working the 2nd Shift – What’s to Love About This Schedule? Being a great parent while working 2nd shift.How to manage your marriage/relationship and the 2nd shift.The pros of the second shift you may not have considered.I have broken this post into four parts which you can click on to access the area you want. But we strive throughout this post to not only change your thinking but also give you tangible tips to make your situation as “family-friendly” as possible.
For some, this careful balancing act seems impossible. Your marriage/relationship, being a great parent and working the 2nd shift. This post will dive into how to not only survive but thrive when managing three important things. We hope you can take something away to ease life’s current rigors.
So alternatively, we invite you to check out this post specifically for single shift working parents. You have a whole new level of amazingness and albeit not all points here may apply to you. Privacy Policy.Now I want to reference the fact that this post caters to parents who are currently in a relationship, however, there are a large amount of 2nd shift workers out there who are single parents. Under which this service is provided to you. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018Ĭable News Network. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. "Even in countries where the division is so stark, there could be discussions about how to make things fairer," Schulte says. Dividing the work not only eases family strife, it also sets an example for others to see how some couples can correct the imbalance. Second, families can discuss how this affects them on an individual level. Schulte points to two ways to lighten the unpaid workload women disproportionately bear.įirst, companies and countries can institute family leave or flexible policies that help shift the cultural norms that keep men in the office and women in the home. "So that's robbing women of the ability to be innovators, for economics and companies and societies to take full advantage of women's talents." "When you expect women to do all that unpaid work, they don't have the energy or the bandwidth to do that deep, concentrated work in the way that men do," Schulte says. Women, though, are strapped working a "second shift" of unpaid work at home. They also have less time to grow their careers.īrigid Schulte, director of the Better Life Lab at New America, says the extra time that men have to research their fields and interests better prepares them for promotions and professional opportunities.
But all this unpaid work falling to women doesn't just mean women have less time to unwind. Department of Labor, American men spend more time than women exercising, playing games and enjoying other leisure activities. Related: The 'invisible labor' still asked of women at workĪccording to the U.S. Even in developed countries, domestic technology that once liberated so many housewives - appliances like dishwashers, laundry machines or even slow cookers - still isn't available to many poor women. In developing countries, work like finding fuel or gathering water often falls to women. "If women stopped doing a lot of the work they do unpaid, then the whole economy would collapse," Razavi says.
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