Male Workaholics Slow Down, Giving Women an Opening: Beth Kowitt

In pretty much all societies, one of the big perks that comes with wealth is that the richer you are the less you work.

But in a bizarre twist of American exceptionalism, a defining mark of US corporate life is not just its obsession with overwork but its reverence for it. The higher up the ladder you climb, the more hours you’re expected to willingly put in — and the higher the premium you’ll be rewarded for it.

It’s men who tend to end up at the top of professions that are the most demanding but also the most lucrative — what Harvard University ...