My new blog post over at Babble:
Women with children were also asked whether they would “prefer” full time, part time or no paying work, and not surprisingly, most women said they would prefer part time work. Well, DUH. Wouldn’t pretty much EVERYONE prefer not to work full time, if all options were actually an option? Seriously, if you asked everyone in America – men, women, parents and non-parents – whether they would prefer to work 8 hours or more a day, 5 days per week, what percentage of people would tell you that they would voluntarily choose to work 40 hours instead of 20 hours? But when mothers say they would prefer to work part time in a study like this, it’s held up as indicative of some kind of societal trend illustrating working mothers’ dissatisfaction with their lots in life.
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