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I'm curious about the reasons women (especially in Denver aparently) are so unhappy with the balance. Is it due to women being more likely to have jobs that are

• rebeccaskinner 10y ago
  It's probably a combination of several factors but I would imagine the biggest factor is that women have more non-work demands (social pressures and gender roles making motherhood frequently more demanding than fatherhood, women being expected to carry a larger portion of housework, etc.) than men, and so an equivalent amount of time off is less satisfactory since less of the "free time" is actually free time. I suspect that another part of it too is that in many jobs women may feel judged more harshly and so less able to actually take advantage of the flexibility that's there since there's already a struggle to be noticed and acknowledged.
• ryanbrunner 10y ago
  There's pretty clear evidence that women value work-life balance and flexibility in scheduling at a much higher amount than men. A large amount of that can be attributed to cultural expectations of raising children. When you have school-aged children, "work-life balance" for both men and wome (but especially women) changes from "gee, it'd be great if I didn't work until 7 PM every night" to "I need to drop off my kids at 8:30, someone needs to pick them up at 4, they have various practices, etc. during the evening and a whole 2 months I need to account for in the summer"