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Additionally, looking at 2019 data by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries, the average time women spent in unpaid work is 264 minutes per day compared to men who spent 136 minutes per day. [71] Although men spend more time in paid work, women still spend more time, in general, doing both paid and unpaid work.
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]
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]
Older women account for most of the paid eldercare roles (27% of healthcare support jobs, versus just 3% of men the same age), and median pay for these jobs remains one-third below the national ...
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 ...
Canadian Women: A History, 1st edition, Co-author with Alison Prentice et al. (Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988). ISBN 0774731125. ISBN 978-0774731126. Women’s Paid and Unpaid Work: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Editor (Toronto: New Hogtown Press, 1985). ISBN 091994020X.
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