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Tuesday, September 18, 2001
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,46689,00.html Women Face 'Third Shift' Online By Kendra Mayfield When Phyllis Olmstead started a graduate degree program in education, her professor revealed an ominous statistic: Three out of four women who had gone through the program before her had gotten divorced.... While more women such as Olmstead are going online to take courses, for many of them it means juggling a full-time job and family or homemaking responsibilities with a heavy course load, which is for some equivalent to a "third shift," according to a recent report by the American Association of University Women (AAUW). "In this respect, technology hasn't freed more of women's time, (it has) only created a third shift in the home," said Cheris Kramarae, the author of the report and an AAUW Educational Foundation scholar-in-residence....
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