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.
4 in 10 is about half…
The differences in social expectations is a valid topic, but that sentence made me chuckle.
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.
Plus this is 4/10 stubborn men admitting being stressed, the real number has to be higher lol
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).
You have non-stressful dreams? Lucky.
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.
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.
They almost could have said six of one half dozen of another.