Revisiting the Gender Gap in Time-Use Patterns: Multitasking and Well-Being among Mothers and Fathers in Dual-Earner Families

Posted: December 2, 2011

In the December issue of the American Sociological Review, Offer and Scheider examine multi-tasking as a source of gender inequality which could help explain previous findings that mothers feel more burdened and stressed than fathers, even as fathers contribute more to child rearing and housework. News media including NPR and the LA Times reported this research on Friday morning.

Revisiting the Gender Gap in Time-Use Patterns: Multitasking and Well-Being among Mothers and Fathers in Dual-Earner Families (December 2011).

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