Maryann Veyon’s Reviews > Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want > Status Update

“Married women who work full-time still perform 2/3 of the housework & childcare at home. They enjoy less leisure time than their male partners & … experience a dramatic upward spike in their stress levels at the end of the workday as they approach their "2nd shift." Constant stress of this sort can produce sustained elevated levels of stress hormones … a risk factor for… major diseases that afflict women.”