in a survey taken in across all european countries when asked to rate whether they allocated too much too little or the right amount of time on paid work contact with family other social contact and personal hobbies women reported lower satisfaction with their allocation of time than men these differences in perceptions of imbalance and stress can be due to the fact that women maintain general responsibilities for the household s operation data refer to for mexico to for ireland the netherlands and the united kingdom to for spain and the united states to for italy to for denmark and germany to for norway slovenia and south africa to for france to for austria and to for israel in general women have larger and more multifaceted networks than men report having more friends and provide and receive more support from members of their network than men do