Personal vs Professional

Women consider their volunteering as a prolongation of their private lives, something very personal for them, to which they dedicate as much time as they are needed, while men consider it more like a prolongation of their professional or work live, not their personal self, therefore they set more limits to their involvement and the time they dedicate to it.

Obviously these differences don’t always exist and they are not absolute, but of measure.  This author recognizes that men volunteer in the same way as women, if they are young, they have just started their associative involvement or if they want to establish social relationships and to avoid or lessen their loneliness.

As opposed to women volunteers who act as men to a lesser degree, complaining of being tired of doing things for free along their lives, but feeling guity, maybe because unconsciously they consider it a betrayal to the roles attributed to them by society and which women have internalized.