Arlie Russell Hochschild's book "The Time Bind" takes an in-depth look at the American corporate workplace today and why so many men and women simply do not have enough time to successfully balance work and home life. She says that a culmination of social forces are what govern these people's lives, and today it is making them work longer hours with fewer vacations, and generally cut in on their time to parent and take care …showed first 75 words of 1669 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1669 total…is society. The evolutionary psychology theory states that people became genetically encoded with their behavior patterns over one million years ago. There is no way that the human race has genetically altered its preferences in the past 50 years for something that took over a million to instill. By looking at these notes, it is clear that an individualist perspective is not useful when trying to explain men's behavior in the workplace and refusal to change.