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…women, particularly mothers, do about five things at once… they are never fully experiencing their external or their internal worlds.

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.

…new research is finding that better work gets done when workers have more control over and predictability about their time and workflow, and when managers focus on the mission…

…millennials would rather be unemployed than stay in a job they hate…

…times and work have changed. Unlike manual laborers, knowledge workers have about six good hours of hard mental labor a day…

For women… home, no matter how filled with love and happiness, is just another workplace.

…in surveys around the globe, women are more likely to report more chronic stress and the feeling that life is out of control than men.

…feeling positive and happy in the first place is what fosters achievement.

…scholars say women taking time for themselves, deliberately choosing leisure without children or family, is nothing less than a courageous – subversive, almost – act of resistance.

…talk to any leisure researcher, and he or she will say that the true test of leisure is not what the activity is that fills a certain block of time but how that time feels.