The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality - Paperbackby Jerry A. Jacobs (Author), Kathleen Gerson (Author) In a panoramic study that draws on diverse sources, Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson explain why and how time pressures have emerged and what we can do to alleviate them. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that all Americans are overworked, they show that time itself has become a form of social inequality that is dividing Americans in new ways between the overworked and the underemployed,