2015考研英语阅读真题：考研英语（二）第1篇
A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys, people are actually more stressed at home than at work.
Researchers measured people’s cortisol, which is a stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.
“Further contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home.” Write one of the researchers, Sarah Damaske.
In fact women even say they feel better at work, she notes, who report being happier at home than at work.”
“It is men, not women,
Another surprise is that the findings hold true for both those with children and without, but more so for nonparents.
This is why people who work outside the home have better health.
What the study doesn’t measure is whether people are still doing work when theyat home, whether it is household work or work brought home from the office.
For many men, the end of the workday is a time to kick back.
For women who say home, they never get to leave the office.
And for women who work outside the home, they often are playing catch—up—with—household tasks.
With the blurring of roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women, it’s not surprising that women are more stressed at home.
But it’s not just a gender thing.
At work, people pretty much know what they’re supposed to be doing: working,making money, doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income.
The bargain is very pure; Employee puts in hours of physical or mental labor and employee draws out life—sustaining moola.
考研英语阅读真题：考研英语(二)第1篇_毙考题
