And it’s an incredibly hard habit to break. The sandwich generation is worn down beyond recovery.
Women with care duties have very little "pure” leisure to themselves. Often, it is spent w/ kids or those they’re caring for. Early time-use researchers—all men—initially coded child care as leisure. They assumed women were at home having fun with the kids. https://www.thepersistent.com/women-leisure-time-hobbies-taking-back-me-time/