Question

how does a person’s education affect how many hours per week she or he is likely to work outside the home? How have changes in the kinds of families Americans live in affected what the authors call the “work-home crunch”?

Answer 1

It interesting to note that those who are well educated veritably have an exponential rise in the amount of hours they put in in their professional lives, while there is a concurrent drastic decrease in the hours of those with less education. And this increase has been visibly noticeable since the 1970's. Education is directly affiliated with this phenomena because individual with respect to the king of profession they work in (managers and professionals) end up putting in more hours in weekdays is more than their counterparts, which depicts the role of education, as education and job profile are correlated.

This is not only owing to a persons academic background but also the two factors which have led to an exorbitant shift in the nature of the family model. One, the fact that there is a distribution in the monetary responsibilities of the two members, that is, men aren't the solitary earners; and/ or the change in the traditional nature - there can be single parent household as well.

This is obviously leading to complaints from every household regarding the time squeeze that they experience in context to their work and their home respectively. They feel pressurized by the hours in a day wherein they feel as though there isn't enough time to be able to squeeze everything in: home and work both; and, hence, the work is prioritized as it is directly correlated with success and monetary benefits as opposed to its counterpart. Each member of the family, working women more so as they are still under the onus of the predominant child responsibility and the added burden of professional work which further elevates the dilemma of the work home crunch.