wow 4 minutes. add all the time that a mother and worker has throughout the day including cooking, cleaning, driving kids places, completing other tasks that men are too lazy to do and I'm pretty sure that your extra 4 minutes can even compare.
Katie
of NJ
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Dec 06, 2009 13:54:32 PM
woman work herder...
woman work harder because we have to work twise as hard to work as hard as a man and we make dinner wash the children and pic out clothes for our husband so he doesn't look like a clown in the day... so what do you say to that???
angel101
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Sep 02, 2009 10:52:28 AM
Men have a much harder life than women
obviously men work harder because they work more hours and stuff
paco
of NV
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Feb 28, 2008 17:44:25 PM
MEN WORK HARDER AND LONGER
A study shows that men work an average of 4 minuites longer than woman
of
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Feb 26, 2008 16:17:58 PM
Working harder
I have to disagree with the idea that women complain more, and as for whether or not I have to work harder as a woman writing about personal finance issues... I don't think so. Considering that Suze Orman is probably the most famous personal finance guru out there, it's hard to argue that the deck is stack against us.
Kimberly Palmer
of DC
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Dec 27, 2007 10:44:58 AM
Men are the biggest babies!
"The most likely thing is that women complain more"
I don't think so. Men are the biggest babies:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rXLHWmjA5IE
Ms. Palmer, we were just wondering whether you have to work twice as hard to get the same amount of recognition as other personal finance writers and bloggers:
There have been some really good studies comparing how much men and women work showing them to work similar amounts ( http://www.slate.com/id/2164268 ) I put a lot more stock in those than this study.
The study seems entirely too subjective to be of much use. Alternate hypotheses to the idea that women are working harder include: women being easier to stress out, women having lower expectations to how difficult work should be, Women working less hours while trying to match the amount of work men do in a longer work day, women working less efficiently, Women being more stressed out from housework before they even get to work, Men being conditioned to accept the level of work without looking weak by complaining about how hard it is, and so on.
Separating these possible causes will take a lot more than it sounds like this study has.
Jesse R
of NY
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Dec 25, 2007 21:10:32 PM
subjective question
When a resercher asks subjective questions you can't really measure the answers like it seems they did here. If you ask someone, "My job requires me to work very hard." how do you measure 'very hard'??...the numbers of working hours in a day,... the number of hours on the computer? ...how hard you are ´mentally taxed' on the job? ... how tired you are the end of the day? You could ask 2 people who do the exact same job and they could answer differently, depending on how the measure what 'very hard' means to them.
"In both countries, women were around 22 percent more likely than men to agree with that statement." This could simply be read as women complain more than men. This is a whole other study!
Kimberly Palmer, senior editor for U.S. News & World Report, writes about how to save money, avoid scams, manage debt, and be a savvy shopper. Send your personal finance questions to her for expert money advice.
Katie of NJ @ Dec 06, 2009 13:54:32 PM
angel101 @ Sep 02, 2009 10:52:28 AM
paco of NV @ Feb 28, 2008 17:44:25 PM
of @ Feb 26, 2008 16:17:58 PM
Kimberly Palmer of DC @ Dec 27, 2007 10:44:58 AM
Katlady of AL @ Dec 26, 2007 19:46:02 PM
Josh of @ Dec 26, 2007 03:19:40 AM
Jesse R of NY @ Dec 25, 2007 21:10:32 PM
Christy of PA @ Dec 25, 2007 06:17:01 AM
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