According to the Montreal Gazette, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire scholars have concluded what many working women found out long ago: "Truly flexible work arrangements are a myth."
The American study which followed ten female business owners all day, every day, for a week revealed that the women were working even when they are not. Flexibility in the workplace, they concluded was causing more tension in women's lives than it was relieving.
Women who try to work flexibly to balance commitments with the family find themselves working all the time. One woman in the study described her job as "a sickness, an obsession."
Ultimately work ruled their lives, the researchers found, with the women arranging their schedules to accommodate work, prepare to return to work or work leisurely during supposed free time.
