Quality time
Quality time is an expression referring to how an individual
Overview
Sometimes abbreviated QT, it is an informal reference to time spent with close family,
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History
Its use as a noun expression ("quality time") began in the 1970s. One of the earliest records of this phrase in print was in the Annapolis newspaper The Capital, January 1973, in the article "How To Be Liberated":
The major goal of each of these role changes is to give a woman time to herself, Ms. Burton explained. "A woman's right and responsibility is to be self fulfilling," she said. She gives "quality time" rather than "quantity time" to each task, whether it be writing, cleaning the house or tending the children.
The Time Bind, a 1997 book,[2] was mentioned in Newsweek's multi-page feature about Quality Time.[1] The same issue of Newsweek had a full-page review[3] of another 1997 book, Time for Life,[4] which emphasizes that most people have a flawed "ability to separate faulty perception of time use from reality."[4] Author Robinson's diary-based research shows that 15 hours per week of "free time" (the greatest category of time used) goes into TV viewing.[3]
See also
- Double burden
- Gemütlichkeit
- Kids' club
- Work–family balance in the United States
- Work–family conflict
- Work–life balance
References
- ^ a b Laura Shapiro (May 12, 1997). "The Myth of Quality Time". Newsweek. pp. 62–68.
- ISBN 9780805044713. Google Print
- ^ a b Marc Peyser (May 12, 1997). "Time Bind? What Time Bind?". Newsweek. p. 69.
- ^ ISBN 978-0271034263.