How Family and Workplace Culture Shape Women's Work Addiction
Women whose parents or managers seemed driven by work were themselves more likely to show signs of work addiction.
Work Addiction, Risky Habits, Women's Health, Relationships
This 2024 study surveyed 964 employees in Lithuania to test whether perceiving a parent or a manager as work-addicted predicts a person's own risk of work addiction, and whether this differs between women and men. For women specifically, perceiving both parents and managers as work-addicted was linked to higher work-addiction risk in themselves, a pattern that was less consistent for men. This suggests the compulsive drive to overwork may be, in part, learned or absorbed from the people a woman grew up watching and the culture she now works within, rather than arising purely from her own temperament. As a cross-sectional survey relying on perception rather than measuring the parents or managers directly, it shows a real and specific association for women without proving that one behaviour causes the other. For a woman trying to understand her own relationship with work, it points usefully beyond herself, toward the models of overwork she inherited at home and absorbed in her career.
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