Mothers spend 9 more hours a week multitasking than do working fathers
Have you ever unloaded the dishwasher while helping with a child’s homework? Ever keep one eye on soccer practice while checking your voice mail and trying to figure out what to make for dinner? This is known as a multitasking.
A new study showed that American working mothers do a whole lot of it and seem more stressed by it than working fathers.
Researchers found out that working mothers spend 9 more hours a week multitasking than do working fathers, or about 48 hours per week for moms compared with 39 for dads. Results showed that when they have to multitask, they don’t actually enjoy it.
According to the researches when women are trying to do multiple things at once, they report feeling stressed, while men don’t seem to mind it as much. Researchers suppose that it could be because men’s multitasking at home more often involves work, while women’s involves combining household chores and child-rearing, which may leave them feeling conflicted and guilty.
Between working mothers, there are 53 percent of multitasking at home involves housework compared with 42 percent among working fathers. Besides, 36 percent of women’s multitasking at home involves child care compared with 28 percent for fathers.
“The hours that fathers spend in household labor have increased, but when you include multitasking, then you are able to see mothers are still shouldering more of the household responsibilities than fathers. It what their natural is.” say researchers.
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