 |
[For women,] …’contaminated time’… is a product of both role overload – working and still bearing the primary responsibility for children and home – and task density.
|
27 |
 |
Though women are clearly doing far less now than in the 1960s and men are doing more, women still spend about twice as much time scrubbing and polishing.
|
31 |
 |
…research finds that the amount of housework a woman does depends to a great degree on her own earnings. The more a woman makes, the less housework she does.
|
32 |
 |
…researchers… insist housework and child care [are] not the same as leisure… women’s leisure is different from men’s leisure in both quantity and quality.
|
33 |
 |
…studies have found that stress can, literally, age someone. Especially women.
|
60 |
 |
Though it’s a popular notion that women’s brains are wired to multi-task and men’s to compartmentalize, neuroscientists have found that’s patently untrue.
|
65 |
 |
There is no question that the overwhelm and information overload are fracturing time for both mean and women and splintering it into whirling bits of time confetti.
|
66 |
 |
…it’s much more difficult for women to feel that they can get immersed in something and forget themselves, forget time, forget everything around them. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
|
67 |
 |
…women, particularly mothers, do about five things at once… they are never fully experiencing their external or their internal worlds.
|
67 |
 |
Nearly two-thirds of all employed workers, both women and men, say they’d rather own their own business for the freedom that would give them to control their time.
|
88 |
