Motherhood is like 2.5 full time jobs, study says

By AnnaJohnstone | The Sun

Cheers to hardworking moms and dadseverywhere.  (iStock)

Everyone knows that moms are heroes（英雄）, as it’s a job where you can’t just clock off（打卡下班） at five, and you’re working every hour under the sun. But now research has confirmed（证实；确认） what every mother knows – it’s actuallymore work than a full time job（全职工作）.

A survey of 2,000American moms of children aged（…岁的） five to 12 analyzed their weekly schedule（每周安排）. The study, conducted by juicecompany Welch’s, revealed（显示；揭示） that the average daily start time for a mom is 6:23am – much earlier thanwhen most people start their working day（工作日）.

Once she has finished all the tasks, whether they are career related（相关的） or parenting（养育）, she ends her work at 8:31pm.

Not many jobs require（要求） a 14-hour workingday, and most moms have to do this every day of the week. In total（总计）, that makes a mother’s working week a whopping（巨大的） 98 hours of work, or two and a half times（2.5倍） more than the average job.

The survey also revealed that the average mom gets just one hour and sevenminutes of time to herself every day – so little more than a lunch hour（午餐时间）.

Casey Lewis, healthand nutrition lead at Welch’s, told Yahoo “The results ofthe survey highlight（强调） just how demanding（高要求的） the role of mom can be and the non-stop barrage（连续高强度） of tasks it consists of（包含；由…构成）.”

Moms need all the help they can get, and when asked what they couldn’tlive with out, they said a constant supply（连续供应） of coffee, the ability to nap（小睡，打盹儿）, and being able to put on an effectiveangry voice. Other lifesavers（救星） were wine, babysitters（临时照看小孩者） or family help, Netflix, wet wipes（湿巾）, drive-through（免下车的） meals, iPads, toys, and healthy snacks（小吃；快餐）.