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I loved the Spanish siesta, the traditional long lunch/afternoon nap time. Of course I was a teenager when in Spain and I was probably sleeping off a late night party and eating to soothe a hangover. In Chile , I equally enjoyed the long lunch siesta tradition kept from the Spanish motherland. But again, I was a childless college student at the time. One article asks if the siesta tradition is adding more work to Spain’s working mothers. Working mothers end up laboring not only at their jobs during the day but in their homes with housework and the children after work hours in what is known as the “second shift”. Spain’s government is trying to ease that burden by legally establishing a standard workday of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Thursday, and finishing on Friday at 2:30 p.m. Extra hours can be worked, but the law says it’s a right for public employees to finish their workday before 6 p.m.

Via / Women’s eNews