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Women of the Future: Powerful, Stressed

Women feel overworked amid gains in economic clout

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 6, 2009 5:48 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Women are gaining economic clout, but they’re also feeling overburdened, a survey of 12,000 women in 21 countries finds. Women spend some 70% of consumer dollars globally and are set to produce 70% of household income growth in the next 5 years—meaning entrepreneurs who can help them deal with stress stand to reap huge profits, the Christian Science Monitor reports.

Women’s stress isn’t just tied to the current recession, as pointed out by a study released in May that discusses “the paradox of declining female happiness.” While quality of life has improved through the years for both sexes, women say they’re feeling less happy. It could be because better job opportunities have translated into greater economic responsibility—while domestic expectations remain high.

Women are gaining economic power, but they're feeling overworked, an international survey finds.
Women are gaining economic power, but they're feeling overworked, an international survey finds.   (Shutterstock)
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Sonny_Crockett
Aug 7, 2009 12:28 PM CDT
Especially career Women deserve more credit for being Women now-a-days then we give them. They go to work, take care of their families and the household, deal with "feminine" problems, and still find time to gossip about everything under the son. Props to my wife for being a SuperWoman and a mom with a career.... ( I do the dishes once a month, just so I can say that I contribute to the household chores..)
brawne
Aug 7, 2009 3:32 AM CDT
You do know that she's gossiping about your dick, right? I was at a Garden Club meeting one time and every husband would have had a stroke. But men talk about other women--and women gossip about their husbands. Tidy, isn't it?
wwwonderer
Aug 7, 2009 3:02 AM CDT
The thing is women can't have it both ways. Lot's of women i talk to about the subject want equal rights when it comes to work and careers, yet still want men to treat them like a 'gentleman' in the dating arena. I'm all for equal rights. I feel a woman SHOULD earn the same as a man for her position and skills, etc. I DO feel women should have the same opportunities as a man. I also believe that a woman gets to stand up on the bus or train like a man. Women can't ask to be treated equally in one instance and treated special in another. If a woman is demanding that man open the door for her, pull her chair out for her, etc., then she is saying pay me 70% of what a man makes. For me it's one or the other.
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