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Deadline divide: women shy away from asking for extensions

Even when deadlines are flexible, women are less likely than men to seek extra time for assignments.
Rear view of a young woman working late on her computer in her home office

Survey data suggest that women feel more time stress than men in part because they are more reluctant to ask for deadline extensions. Credit: Getty

Sometimes, there simply aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done on time. But women are less likely than men to ask for deadline extensions, a new study suggests1.

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Nature 599, 182 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03014-3

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  1. Whillans, A. V., Yoon, J., Turek, A. & Donnnelly, G. E. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105622118 (2021).

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