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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]
English: :Time spent on unpaid work, per day, men vs women Average minutes spent on unpaid work or study, per day, by sex (ages 15-65). Unpaid work activities include: routine housework; care for household members; child care; adult care; care for non-household members; volunteering; travel related to household activities; other unpaid work.
In 1988, Marilyn Waring published If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics, a groundbreaking and systematic critique of the system of national accounts, the international standard of measuring economic growth, and the ways in which women's unpaid work as well as the value of Nature have been excluded from what counts as productive in the economy.
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 ...
Story at a glance Around the world, women complete a disproportionate amount of unpaid work compared with men. A new review details the toll unpaid work takes on women’s mental health. Authors ...
By failing to count unpaid work, the current GDP calculation creates a hidden tax on millions of unpaid workers—primarily caregiving women, the stay-at-home mothers and daughters who are forced ...
Women's work is generally unpaid or paid less than "men's work" and is not as highly valued as "men's work". [2] Much of women's work is not included in official statistics on labour, making much of the work that women typically do virtually invisible. [3]
Having a baby should be a joyful time, but for many mothers, the experience can lead to financial hardship. That's because only 17% of American workers have access to paid parental leave ...