{"id":3000,"date":"2018-01-08T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2018-01-08T15:47:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T15:47:01","slug":"women-less-satisfied-with-work-life-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/women-less-satisfied-with-work-life-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Less Satisfied With Work-Life Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women appear to be struggling more than men with their work-life balance, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/54-are-you-satisfied-with-your-work-life-balance\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\">Comparably<\/a>. More than 10,000 people across the technology industry responded to the query.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How it breaks down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sixty-three percent of women say they are satisfied with their work-life balance, according to the data. That compares with 68% of men.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/54-are-you-satisfied-with-your-work-life-balance\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3002 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/menvswomen.jpg\" alt=\"menvswomen\" width=\"480\" height=\"51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/menvswomen-300x32.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/menvswomen.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>From a city view<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Men and women in Seattle had the highest view of their work-life balance, with 73% saying they are satisfied. San Francisco and Boston were close behind (70% and 69%).<\/p>\n<p>The city with the worst work-life balance was Atlanta, where 62% of people said they are satisfied with their work-life balance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/54-are-you-satisfied-with-your-work-life-balance\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3004 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/ATL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/ATL-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/ATL.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 85vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Job roles with the most satisfaction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People in HR and executive roles were most satisfied with their work-life balance (73% and 72%, respectively). People in legal, communications and customer support were least satisfied (56%, 57%, 59% &#8211; respectively).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/54-are-you-satisfied-with-your-work-life-balance\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3003 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/HR.jpg\" alt=\"HR\" width=\"509\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/HR-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/HR.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 85vw, 509px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest reading is as of Jan. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women appear to be struggling more than men with their work-life balance, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. More than 10,000 people across the technology industry responded to the query. How it breaks down Sixty-three percent of women say they are satisfied with their work-life balance, according to the data. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/women-less-satisfied-with-work-life-balance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3008,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions\/3008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}