WOMEN, MEN, AND THE 2ND-SHIFT IN SOCIALIST YUGOSLAVIA

The authors examine the ''second shift'' in the former socialist Yugos lavia through the analysis of 1989-90 data from a random sample of 7,7 90 adults in the paid labor force. Despite working outside the home, w omen are primarily responsible for housework. Neither education occupa tion, urbanization, nor participation in the informal economy has a si gnificant effect in reducing this; only the presence of an older femal e in the household measurably reduces an employed woman's participatio n in the second shift. Not only are men's attitudes important for wome n's performance of the second shift but also men's ability to act in t erms of this value displays the significance of a gendered social stru cture in socialist societies.