Gender and Time for Sleep among U.S. Adults
Gender and Time for Sleep among U.S. Adults
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DOI：
10.1177/0003122412472048
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发表时间：
2013-02-01
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
Ailshire, Jennifer A.
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作者：
Burgard, Sarah A.;Ailshire, Jennifer A.
女性真的比男性睡得更多吗？生物医学和社会科学研究表明，女性的睡眠时间更长，这是一个令人惊讶的发现，因为社会学研究表明，与男性相比，女性有更多的无偿工作和更少的高质量休闲时间。我们评估了睡眠时间性别差异的解释，包括参与有酬和无酬劳动水平的构成差异、对工作和家庭责任的性别反应，以及小睡、就寝时间和因照顾而中断睡眠的差异。我们根据年龄、伴侣关系和生育状况，研究了睡眠时间的总体性别差距以及家庭生命历程阶段的差距。我们分析了 2003 年至 2007 年美国时间利用调查中具有全国代表性的工作年龄成年人样本中每天的睡眠分钟数。总体而言，在生命历程的大多数阶段，女性的睡眠时间多于男性。造成这一差距的主要原因是工作和家庭责任以及性别时间权衡；因此，性别差异在生命历程的各个阶段都有所不同。在大多数比较中，女性在睡眠时间方面的性别差距相对较小，应根据在生命历程各个阶段男性在休闲时间方面的性别差距来考虑。
Do women really sleep more than men? Biomedical and social scientific studies show longer sleep durations for women, a surprising finding given sociological research showing women have more unpaid work and less high-quality leisure time compared to men. We assess explanations for gender differences in time for sleep, including compositional differences in levels of engagement in paid and unpaid labor, gendered responses to work and family responsibilities, and differences in napping, bedtimes, and interrupted sleep for caregiving. We examine the overall gender gap in time for sleep as well as gaps within family life-course stages based on age, partnership, and parenthood statuses. We analyze minutes of sleep from a diary day collected from nationally representative samples of working-age adults in the American Time Use Surveys of 2003 to 2007. Overall and at most life course stages, women slept more than men. Much of the gap is explained by work and family responsibilities and gendered time tradeoffs; as such, gender differences vary across life course stages. The gender gap in sleep time favoring women is relatively small for most comparisons and should be considered in light of the gender gap in leisure time favoring men at all life course stages.