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And with women comprising nearly half of the workforce and the narrowest workforce participation gender gap in U.S. history, “turning a blind eye to this challenge women are facing means we are ...
A work–life balance is bidirectional; for instance, work can interfere with private life, and private life can interfere with work. This balance or interface can be adverse in nature (e.g., work–life conflict) or can be beneficial (e.g., work–life enrichment) in nature. [1] Recent research has shown that the work-life interface has become ...
The 1980s brought new complaints of work–life balance related stress. This time period was given such names as "the ME generation," "the age of narcissism" and "the pursuit of loneliness." [5] The number of cases of emotional depression in the United States was believed to have doubled between 1970 and 1990.
Women's higher rates of job-related stress may be due to the fact that women are often caregivers at home and do contingent work and contract work at a much higher rate than men. Another significant occupational hazard for women is homicide , which was the second most frequent cause of death on the job for women in 2011, making up 26% of ...
A CEO mom of four shares her insights on work-life balance—or lack thereof. Illustration:Thodoris Tibilis. I’m going to say it out loud: I don’t believe in work-life balance. I understand ...
Another challenge is the difference in the amount of money women make versus men. The Center for American Progress found that in 2021, women who worked full-time typically earned over $9,000 less ...
A look into the challenges of career advancement for professional women with children and the "unfinished business" of the women's movement. [5] Drawing on her own experiences as a mother and State Department official, [6] Slaughter argues for the importance of valuing care: the work to nurture our friends, family and loved ones. [7]
A paper rejecting statistics of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions as "the main source of tendentious polemics on women’s unfair burden and gender inequality", states that the idea of a double burden is a myth and concludes instead that "on average, women and men across Europe do the same total number ...