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Working mothers outdo fathers as multitaskers

Spend more time juggling chores at home, study finds

A study of 368 US mothers and 241 fathers found that women spend nearly 10 hours more per week multitasking while at home than working fathers. That’s 48.3 hours of multitasking each week for mom, 38.9 hours per week for dad. There’s hardly enough time in the day to complain about being too busy.

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elliebear

This is a surprise? I've been telling my women's studies students this for 15 years.

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JLErwin3

It would be interesting to study single, unattached men and women and evaluate who multi-tasks better, independently.

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boatwrote

A study skewed in favor of the women!!! It figures that the Blob would gush all over this sort of nonsense. Meantime, the femiists of this world keep trying to turn themselves into Amazons. Good Gollywogs Gertie...

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