My fabulous friend Sara Grace recently wrote a blog post inspired by a study of how men and women behave differently at work.
Some statistics cited:

• Men are 25% more likely to take breaks throughout the day for personal activities
• 7% more likely to take a walk
• 5% more likely to go out to lunch
• 35% more likely to take breaks ‘just to relax.’

On mygreenlight.com, Sara responds:

Why don’t women do this? Because we think we’re not allowed to – we’re at work. Unlike boys, we’re brought up to be orderly and pleasing, and please we do, by being brilliant, bien sur, but also through means that can hurt us: multitasking, working ourselves to death, slavishly obeying our perfectionist impulses meanwhile cutting other corners that shouldn’t be cut.
So ladies, by all the power vested in me by, well, me, I give you permission to take walks. To go out to lunch. To take breaks JUST TO RELAX!

Do you think the men at your workplace take more breaks for themselves than women?
Do you make time during your workday for personal activities, walks or lunch?
How does your workplace treat people who take breaks during the day?