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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 ...
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.
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]
A paper rejecting statistics of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions as "the main source of tendentious polemics on women’s unfair burden and gender inequality", states that the idea of a double burden is a myth and concludes instead that "on average, women and men across Europe do the same total number ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...