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  2. Unpaid work takes a toll on employed women’s mental health

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    A new review details the toll unpaid work takes on women’s mental health. Authors stress the importance of policy changes to address this problem, including implementation of universal child ...

  3. Feminist economics - Wikipedia

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    They argue that traditional analysis of economics often ignores the value of household unpaid work. Feminist economists have argued that unpaid domestic work is as valuable as paid work, so measures of economic success should include unpaid work. They have shown that women are disproportionately responsible for performing such care work. [57]

  4. Wages for Housework - Wikipedia

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    In fact, more often than not, women who have entered the paid workforce often face a "double shift" of work, the first paid work in the labor market and the second unpaid housework. [31] According to one global estimate, women spend 4.5 hours of unpaid work per day, twice as many hours as men do on average.

  5. Gendered impact of the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

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    Before the crisis started, women did nearly three times as much unpaid care and domestic work as men, [12] completing 75% of total unpaid care work. [69] Since the start of the pandemic, women in the US have reported spending an additional 1.5 – 2 hours [ 70 ] on these increased caregiving responsibilities.

  6. The economic case against unpaid domestic work - AOL

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    Daily living is a lot of work—and the world relies on the unpaid labor of women to keep households functional. Women spend an average three to six hours per day on cooking, cleaning, watching ...

  7. 'Historic and unprecedented': Women have been hit hardest by ...

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    Women who work entered the year on a high note, with sky-high employment numbers thanks, in part, to the rapid expansion of industries such as health care and education. “This is historic and ...

  8. Burned out by coronavirus, millions of U.S. women want to ...

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    Women said they felt burned out, with many doing double duty on the job and at home due to the new coronavirus pandemic, in a survey by LeanIn.Org, a U.S.-based women's rights group, and McKinsey ...

  9. Unpaid work - Wikipedia

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    Nor have men increased their share of unpaid work at the same rate that women have increased their share of paid work. [17] The Human Development Report of 2015 reports that, in 63 countries, 31 percent of women's time is spent doing unpaid work, as compared to men who dedicate only 10 percent of their time to unpaid work. [23]