Summary

About half of working women reported feeling stressed “a lot of the day,” compared to about 4 in 10 men, according to a Gallup report published this week.

The report suggests that competing demands of work and home comprise part of the problem: working women who are parents or guardians are more likely than men who are parents to say they have declined or delayed a promotion at work because of personal or family obligations, and mothers are more likely than fathers to “strongly agree” that they are the default responders for unexpected child care issues.

  • snooggums
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    744 months ago

    About half of working women reported feeling stressed “a lot of the day,” compared to about 4 in 10 men, according to a Gallup report published this week.

    4 in 10 is about half…

    The differences in social expectations is a valid topic, but that sentence made me chuckle.

    • Admiral PatrickOP
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      174 months ago

      Yeah, it’s like they wanted to include that stat but also kind of gloss over it to not “all people are stressed” the article. I can see why they did, but yeah, lol.

    • @Steve@communick.news
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      4 months ago

      If we first got those numbers down to 2:10 and 1:10, we could then try to learn why women are reporting being stressed “a lot of the day” at twice the rate of men.

    • @474D@lemmy.world
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      164 months ago

      Plus this is 4/10 stubborn men admitting being stressed, the real number has to be higher lol

      • @BigPotato@lemmy.world
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        74 months ago

        I dunno if I’m in the 4/10 admitting it or the 6/10 lying about it but I’m stressed 20/7 (a generous four hours of REM sleep).

          • @BigPotato@lemmy.world
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            23 months ago

            I dreamed the other day I totaled my car in a bad accident and then went and bought an Acura and was happy with it.

            I don’t know what that says about my brain that “bad accident totalling my car” wasn’t stressful.