One out of three full-time employed married mothers suffers from extreme levels of time stress. It is interesting to note that mothers who don't work at all outside the home, still only spend 54 minutes per day on housework. The report, As Time Goes By - Time Use Of Canadians by Judith A Frederick, surveyed youths 15 to 24, baby boomers 25 to 44, adults 45 to 64, and seniors 65 and over. Interestingly, the time pressures of the baby boomers seem to be carried forward into their senior years, even though the children have left the nest and the adults have retired. This might indicate that people are putting time pressures on themselves, either through unrealistic expectations or simply poor time management habits.
Old habits die hard.
If we go through our younger years with a keen sense of time urgency, these same behaviors tend to follow us into our retirement years as well. He suggests that before retirement we take extra vacation time to reduce our working hours and exercise both mind and body. It makes sense for all of us, men and women alike, to plan for our senior years, especially since those years continue to expand. Life expectancy for women has increased to about 81 years and men to about 74 years. In 1941, these figures were 66 and 63 respectively.