This has been bothering me for a long time, but less on a gender level than on an "everyone" level. I tried to talk about this recently in another setting, and no one really thought it was valid. I was commenting that all my reading about anxiety has led to reading about stress as a societal problem in general, and how our balance between work and leisure time is so out of whack that we make ourselves sick.
One person said she thought that was false, that we likely work a lot less than we used to, that the perception we work more now than we did in years past was an illusion. Personally, I think she's wrong, but I didn't feel like arguing about it.
I haven't listened to the show, but I share your relief that the observation is being validated.
I'm curious to know how they determine which gender does more work at home, either with children or in the household in general. Around here, I do much more housework, but Greg does easily 50% of the childcare, which has impressed me for years, considering he works full time and I rarely have.
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Date: 2009-07-10 09:20 am (UTC)One person said she thought that was false, that we likely work a lot less than we used to, that the perception we work more now than we did in years past was an illusion. Personally, I think she's wrong, but I didn't feel like arguing about it.
I haven't listened to the show, but I share your relief that the observation is being validated.
I'm curious to know how they determine which gender does more work at home, either with children or in the household in general. Around here, I do much more housework, but Greg does easily 50% of the childcare, which has impressed me for years, considering he works full time and I rarely have.