Americans work longer hours than people in most other developed countries, including renowned workaholics in Japan. As a result, work-family conflict is much higher in the United States than in other nations.
The typical American middle-income family put in an average of 11 more hours a week in 2006 than it did in 1979, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress and the Center for Work-Life Law at the UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.