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Overwhelmed:
[Americans] work among the longest hours and the most ‘extreme’ hours of any industrialized country in the world.
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26 |
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Overwhelmed:
The United States is the only advanced economy that doesn’t guarantee workers paid time off. Nearly one-quarter of all American workers get no paid vacation…
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27 |
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Overwhelmed:
[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.
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27 |
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Overwhelmed:
…research found… people with more education [feel] more than time stress than those with less education.
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28 |
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Overwhelmed:
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.
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31 |
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Overwhelmed:
…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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32 |
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Overwhelmed:
…in carefully looking at what fathers are actually doing… a time study of Australian parents [found] that fathers are still largely the ‘fun’ parent.
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Overwhelmed:
In America, mothers today spend more time taking care of their children than mothers did in the 1960s, even though so many more are working, and working full-time, outside the home.
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Overwhelmed:
Mothers have given up time to play.
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Overwhelmed:
…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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