Cellphones fuel the "second shift", especially for women

The technology that can connect us 24/7 to the office also gives us a "hot line" to family, and that's a mixed blessing, especially for working moms, reports the Boston Globe.

... "Cellphones seem to have a special propensity to fuel what sociologist Arlie Hochschild has dubbed the "second shift," the domestic duties that working women shoulder.

Mobile phones are linked to more home-to-work spillover and distress for women than men, according to a two-year study of working couples, most with children, by Noelle Chesley , an assistant sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "

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