Today's debates about work-life balance are mainly about how to manage time-time for work, time for caring for family members, and enough free time. Since the publication of Schor's The Overworked American central issue in economics, industrial relations, and the sociology of work and gender relations. Schor's argument, also made by many others (Hochschild 1997; Galinksy 1999), that US workers are spending more time at work than their parents and grandparents, was recognized as true by many people. Whereas economic progress and increased wealth were supposed to deliver more free time, the lack of free time is a growing concern related to the quality of modern family life. Time pressure is now a common experience This is shown by the fact that an increasing per cent of the population feel short of time. Starting in 1965, the US time-use researcher John Robinson and his team have been asking people: "Would you say you always 0 feel rushed, even to do things you have to do, only sometimes feel rushed, or almost never feel rushed? The proportion of 18-64-year-olds who reported "always feeling rushed rose from 24 per cent in 1965 to 38 per cent in 1992; it then declined slightly in 1995 particularly experienced by women who balance work, family, and free time.