Women want shorter work days...LOL

http://truthformen.blogspot.com/2007/03/women-want-shorter-work-dayslol.html

This article on livescience says what we here at the MRA movement have been
saying for a while now.

Twice as many women as men want to cut back on work hours, even at the
sacrifice of pay, according to a new analysis of labor statistics.

The study found that while 5.6 percent of men would opt for fewer work
hours, 10.1 percent of women would prefer less time spent in the office. The
gap might reflect women's disproportionate share of household
responsibilities, the researchers say. Another explanation might be that
women just feel they need to spend more time at home with their children.

More Household responsibilities, are they bat-*** insane? Most of the men I
know contribute at least equally to housework, with alot of them doing more
because their wives have "headaches" frequently. Funny thing too is women
don't count mowing the grass, home repair and fixing things in this list, so
men have an additional burden. How about the explanation is that feminism is
not all it's cracked up to be and women realize how shitty work really is.

The results, detailed in the April issue of the U.S. Department of Labor's
Monthly Labor Review, have implications for understanding why women's
participation in the labor force, which had climbed in the early 1990s, has
leveled off over the past five to 10 years, said the study's lead author
Lonnie Golden, a Penn State University economist.

Grass is always greener isn't it ladies

Golden also suggested the overworked might somehow "lend" their hours to the
unemployed. Study: American Women Need More Vacations

ROTFLMAO, charity and altruism are not female traits, you gotta be pretty
damn lazy to do this. More vacations for what?

Time crunch

Golden analyzed data from the 2001 U.S. Current Population Survey, in which
more than 57,000 individuals responded to supplemental questions involving
work-hour preferences. The survey, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau,
produces monthly and annual-average estimates of the nation's employment and
unemployment.

Overall, about 7 percent of the men and women surveyed reported they would
sacrifice some income if they could cut back on work hours, while 23 percent
wanted more work and the additional pay that would come with it.

Predictors of overemployment included gender, income, marital status,
current weekly hours and whether the individual had a young child.

The more dough a person has rolling in, the more likely that person will opt
to trade a pay cut for a cut in hours, Golden and her colleagues found. "At
some point, people reach a level of pay where they start thinking about that
[pay] sacrifice more seriously, as their time is more scarce and becomes
more valuable to them," Golden said .

Individuals who reported having a child under the age of 3 were more likely
to report overemployment, as were married people. The "health diagnosing"
occupation, which Golden said includes physicians and physician assistants,
had the highest overemployment rate of 20 percent, compared to 14 percent of
lawyers and judges who reported being overemployed.

This is a cushioned statistic for the physician's assistants who are mostly
female. I work in a hospital myself, myself and the other people with
Doctoral degrees hardly ever complain about overworking, but the techs
ALWAYS bitch. 90% of them are women.

Women Feel More Rushed than Men

Woman's world The study results speak to the nation's
employment-unemployment rates and the underlying driver of a woman's
participation in the work force.

Currently, the unemployment rate in the United States is about 4.5 percent.
However, the survey revealed nearly a quarter of participants wanted more
work. If the overworked could lend their hours to those either without jobs
or in need of more income, the result could be a win-win situation, Golden
suggests.

"If you have so many people hungry for hours and more income, how rational
is it to have a segment of your workforce that wants to get rid of some
hours and is willing to sacrifice income to do so?" Golden told LiveScience.

The findings related to women in the workplace point out a need for
re-structuring of the workplace, Golden said. Economists and other labor
researchers have debated whether women leave the workforce because they are
happier at home or because the workplace is too rigid and prevents a
balanced work-home life.

Restructure the workplace? What a fucking joke, and lose even more
productivity than we have already. I got an idea, how about the women learn
that it is work, not joyous fun family time.

Golden leans toward the inflexibility factor, which he says can make it
nearly impossible for some women to take care of household responsibilities
while maintaining a career.

Flexibility is why I went all the way in a DIFFICULT field. I make my own
hours and schedule. Need a few hours on this day, work a little extra on
that day. Can't do that as a PA or a tech or a secretary or in HR.

More drivel coming our way, ohh the poor womyn
posted by ChicagoMan at 11:12 PM


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