Women still outdo men in multitasking, pay price

LOS ANGELES — A new study finds that women outpace men in doing more than one task at a time — and they are paying an emotional cost for doing so.

The findings, published Thursday in the American Sociological Review, come from a two-year study of 500 middle-class, dual-earner families from eight urban and suburban communities across the country.

They show that while fathers and mothers log close to equal time performing paid and unpaid work combined, mothers spend nine more hours a week multitasking than do their husbands, both at work and at home.

It also finds that men and women respond differently to multitasking — not so much at work, where both sexes find it stressful, but at home and in public places.

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