{"id":16297,"date":"2024-11-11T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16297"},"modified":"2024-11-11T10:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T10:22:57","slug":"why-women-get-less-exercise-time-than-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16297","title":{"rendered":"Why Women Get Less Exercise Time Than Men"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Women have less time to work out than men. And their health pays the price.<\/p>\n

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After a full Saturday shuttling her two kids to soccer and play-dates across Manhattan, Neha Ruch, 39, finally carved out a few precious minutes to exercise at 6:15 p.m. She didn\u2019t even bother to change clothes before hopping onto her elliptical machine in a closet-turned-home-gym.<\/p>\n

After 15 minutes, the interruptions started. First, her husband poked his head in \u2014 their daughter was pleading for her to say good night. No problem, Ms. Ruch thought. She sat with her daughter for a while and then came back to the machine.<\/p>\n

But just as she was breaking a sweat, her son wandered over, asking for help finding something to do. She sighed and turned off the machine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had left the door wide open,\u201d she said. After helping him, she surrendered to the couch.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a story that\u2019s played out in millions of homes, as women feel pulled between taking care of themselves and taking care of family. In one recent study<\/a> of 400,000 Americans, only 33 percent of women met weekly recommendations for aerobic exercise, as opposed to 43 percent of men. Other studies, including a 2017 study of 147 countries<\/a>, have confirmed this phenomenon across ages and demographics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Experts say this exercise gender gap<\/a> has a lot to do with the disproportionate amount of time and labor<\/a> women devote to caring for the home and for others. It\u2019s also consistent with research<\/a> suggesting that, on the whole, women tend to prioritize other people\u2019s health above their own, experts said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey make the time for themselves when there is no one else to be taken care of,\u201d said Stephanie Roth-Goldberg, a clinical social worker and therapist in New York. Among her patients, the attitude is, \u201cWhere can I sneak this in?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Women have less time to work out than men. And their health pays the price.After a full Saturday shuttling her two kids to soccer and play-dates across Manhattan, Neha Ruch, 39, finally carved out a few precious minutes to exercise at 6:15 p.m. She didn\u2019t even bother to change clothes before hopping onto her elliptical machine in a closet-turned-home-gym.After 15 minutes, the interruptions started. First, her husband poked his head in \u2014 their daughter was pleading for her to say good night. No problem, Ms. Ruch thought. She sat with her daughter for a while and then came back to the machine.But just as she was breaking a sweat, her son wandered over, asking for help finding something to do. She sighed and turned off the machine.\u201cI had left the door wide open,\u201d she said. After helping him, she surrendered to the couch.It\u2019s a story that\u2019s played out in millions of homes, as women feel pulled between taking care of themselves and taking care of family. In one recent study of 400,000 Americans, only 33 percent of women met weekly recommendations for aerobic exercise, as opposed to 43 percent of men. Other studies, including a 2017 study of 147 countries, have confirmed this phenomenon across ages and demographics.Experts say this exercise gender gap has a lot to do with the disproportionate amount of time and labor women devote to caring for the home and for others. It\u2019s also consistent with research suggesting that, on the whole, women tend to prioritize other people\u2019s health above their own, experts said.\u201cThey make the time for themselves when there is no one else to be taken care of,\u201d said Stephanie Roth-Goldberg, a clinical social worker and therapist in New York. Among her patients, the attitude is, \u201cWhere can I sneak this in?\u201d she said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16299,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16300,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16297\/revisions\/16300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}