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…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.
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…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.
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Men tend to enjoy longer, unbroken stretches of time in any activity…
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So a little stress is good. Some excitement or a new challenge rewires the brain in positive ways to help you learn and acquire new sills.
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…studies have found that stress can, literally, age someone. Especially women.
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Studies have found that information workers have so much coming at them, they switch tasks every three minutes, making the workday fragmented and incoherent.
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…contaminated time, ruminating over the endless to-do list streaming across the brain… saps mental energy.
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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.
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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.
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…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
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