'In Most Rich Countries, Women Work More Than Men'

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2012-12-20 01:14

Article here. Excerpt:

'In most of the developed world, women spend more time working each day than men do, if you include unpaid work.

According to the latest report on gender and employment from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, across the developed world and in other countries tracked by the organization, men spend more minutes per day in paid work than women do.

In the United States, for example, men spend 5 hours and 8 minutes working on the average day, whereas women spend 4 hours and 2 minutes.

But when it comes to unpaid work — activities like child care and cleaning — women spend vastly more time than men in every country the organization included in its analysis.'

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... if men are out working for pay (which often goes to fund women's lifestyles) then sure, they're going to work more paid hours than women. As for "unpaid work", well, these studies are notorious at excluding unpaid work that men do because it's not deemed to be "drudgery"; in short, it devalues men's contributions to the domestic front since the work they are doing isn't the same work as females'.

Thanks, NYT, for yet another anti-male myopic piece of "journalism".

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2012-12-20 12:59