Men and Women Work the Same Amount
This results of this international study reported in Slate--namely, that men and women work the same number of hours per day--did not surprise me nearly as much as the off-handed remark that men spend most of their leisure time watching television. Guys! That's pathetic. Also interesting is that women work less in rich countries than poor countries.
Comments (2)
Brad
Well after getting up at 5:30, commuting an hour, spending 9 hours+ at work, another hour home, cook, clean up, change one of the kids and put them to bed, and attempt at least one other household chore, that leaves maybe 45 minutes to myself. And after such an exhausting day, if the choice is a couple innings of a ball game or reading Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire again, baseball wins out (that is unless the wife wants to talk). I'd love to enrich myself as I did once upon a time, but leisure time is a rare commodity, and the brain is taxed and exhausted as is, stuffing Hume or Gibbon or anything else just doesn't stick at this point. Maybe in a decade or so, but not right now. I think a lot of guys are in this same boat. Long live the flicker box!
Published: April 17, 2007 2:42 PM
Bill
Obviously their study is not correct. Fewer and fewer adult males are watching TV. That is the reason for the current programming and the flood of women into network news broadcasts. It is also the driving force behind major sporting events as the television advertisers are desperate to reach male audiences.
And it is going to get worse. The internet and on-line gaming have and will take bigger shares of the time of adult males and now a lot of adult females.
Published: April 17, 2007 10:17 PM