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Increased pace of work strains family life.
Changes in the American work schedule--with many people working significantly more or fewer hours than they'd like--put strains on family life, according to a panel discussion at the American Sociological Association's annual conference in August.
The pace of work has increased because of changes in jobs, said David Maume, a sociology professor at the University of Cincinnati. "It's not so much all in your head," he said. "People are really being not just overworked but also overpaced."
Jerry Jacobs, a sociology prof at the University of Pennsylvania, said women work fewer hours in countries where ...
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