In today’s Panic of the Week™, it was found that:
according to a Pew Research Center analysis of pooled data from the American Time Use Survey of 2003 to 2011…the gender gap in leisure is about five hours per week.
According to AlterNet contributor April M. Short, “a Bay Area journalist focusing on social justice reporting” who seems to have found a new form of female oppression, the study “shows a leisure-time gender gap that favors men”.
And when it comes to multitasking, forget it…
mothers tend to spend more time than fathers in multitasking; the additional hours spent on multitasking are mainly related to time spent on housework and child care.
Maybe this has something to do with women being better multitaskers than men, and therefore being more efficient, and therefore mixing more leisure with work, and therefore being the better gender, and therefore meaning that fun isn’t sexist and asking different genders to report on a “leisure gender gap” is a waste of time and shouldn’t be taken seriously.
