Worldwide, women
spend an average of 4.5 hours a day on unpaid work, including grocery shopping,
child care and laundry. That is more than double the amount of time men spend,
according to O.E.C.D. data. Men
spend significantly more time on paid work and also on leisure activities,
which include playing sports, watching TV and hanging out with friends.
Claire Cain Miller
In
countries around the world, the ways in which men and women spend their time
are unbalanced. Men spend more time working for money. Women do the bulk of the
unpaid work — cooking, cleaning and child care.
This unpaid work is essential
for households and societies to function. But it is also valued less than paid
work, and when it is women’s responsibility, it prevents them from doing other
things.
“This is one of those root inequalities that exist all over
in society and we just don’t talk about it very much,” Melinda Gates,
co-founder of the Gates Foundation, said in an interview. She said she was
inspired by her own observations when traveling to other countries as well as
by time-use datafrom the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. “If we don’t bring it
forward, we basically won’t unlock the potential of women.”
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Claire Cain Miller – Writer
for The Upshot, the Times site about politics, economics and everyday
life. She covers gender, work and family as well as technology and the way
it changes our lives. 23.02.2016.
IN New
York Times.
