The family happiness

Recipe female happiness: family, work and the man who knows how to fill and empty washing machine. These are the results of the research project, which cost 160 thousand pounds in funds from taxpayers.British women are happy if the organization of their life differs from traditional representations, and do not want to be more housewives and sit at home, care for children, read the results of the study, published by the Economic and Social Studies. "The results of our study contradict the statements that women would be more happy if returned to their traditional roles as housewives," - said study leader Professor Rosemary Crompton from the City University of London.

"Men are often neglected washing and ironing and cleaning are not engaged. But they are more than before, giving time for children, minor repairs, cooking and shopping hikes. They'd rather French and Portuguese men, and the difference between them and Scandinavian men insignificant" . The study involved women's lives in Britain and Portugal, as the final stage of a comparative study of family relations, employment and work outside the home in the UK and Europe.

The study showed that the conflict between family and work related rather with the way people work, than with the very fact of work, and heavily dependent on the availability of part-time employment opportunities and gender policies with regard to working time. In Britain, researchers have found a correlation between the level of stress for women and their ambitions. "Women, on reaching career ladder in Britain, often have a longer working day and can not afford the quality of child care and professional workers to work at home.

The conflict between life and work was more pronounced among those Portuguese women who monotone or manual labour, than at the same British woman. "This is hardly surprising, because many Portuguese women with children up to 15 years, employs more than 68 hours a week. But in the UK in this group are employed full-time with 29% of women.

The study used the scale of the conflict between work and family, developed by the research group. Men and women of the EU asked questions, including how often they come to work, "too exhausted to engage in domestic affairs", and how often they "can hardly concentrate on work due to domestic problems." These results showed that, despite the large number of Portuguese men and women, loaded full-time jobs, among them more people-oriented family values than among Britons. click here