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In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Traditionally gendered understandings of work—that it’s a requirement for men and optional for women—loom large in this process, even for marriages that had been not organized in gender-traditional ways. These beliefs serve to make men’s unemployment an urgent problem, while women’s unemployment—cocooned within a narrative of staying at home—is almost a non-issue. Crunch Time reveals the minutiae of how gendered norms and behaviors are actively maintained by spouses at a time when they could be dismantled, and how gender is central to the ways couples react to and make sense of unemployment.

Unemployed --- Sex differences. --- chores. --- college education. --- downsizing. --- dual income family. --- economics. --- employment. --- gender norms. --- gender. --- gendered work. --- household labor. --- housework. --- job candidate. --- job search. --- layoffs. --- marriage. --- mens unemployment. --- mens work. --- nonfiction. --- unemployment. --- women in the workforce. --- womens studies. --- womens unemployment. --- womens work. --- working women.