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Women Work 39 Days a Year More Than Men, Report Says
BBC ^ | 26 October 2016

Posted on 10/26/2016 4:47:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway

By Will Dahlgreen BBC News Women work on average 39 more days a year than men according to the World Economic Forum.

Women work on average 50 minutes more a day than men, data from the WEF's Global Gender Gap report suggests.

The report says the prevalence of unpaid work burdens women and estimates that economic inequalities between the sexes could take 170 years to close.

The gap in economic opportunity, the WEF says, is now larger than at any point since 2008.

Nearly a quarter of a billion women have entered the global workforce over the past decade, the report says.

Although men do 34% more paid work than women, women still spend more of their time on unpaid work such as housework, childcare and care for older people.

When this is factored in, the WEF calculates women work more than a month more than men per year.

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To: Vendome

Bullshit !

In the office, most women take more days off than men, are more often than not less capable, have no shame about asking others to do their work for them.

At home, what about the auto repairs, lawn mowing, painting, appliance repairs, plumbing repairs, electrical repairs, computer repairs, and coaching sports teams, scouting, karate, take the kids to the doctor, and on, and on.


41 posted on 10/26/2016 5:38:08 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: nickcarraway

Boo hoo. Nobody agitates or cries for me. Suck it up, ladies. Nowadays PC rules and no one really even appreciates the effort it takes to do the jobs men do. Anything I can do THEY can do better. They really contemptuously believe that crap today.


42 posted on 10/26/2016 5:43:08 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: Vendome; nickcarraway

Not sure I believe any of this this: Most studies show women LESS likely to work as many hours a week (at a salaried or paid job) than m en.

Are they counting hours-at-home as well? Certainly, that would add more to most women’s weeks. But NOT to their paychecks.


43 posted on 10/26/2016 5:47:03 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: nickcarraway

My wife works one floor above me and she is constantly gets off work about 30 minutes later than I.

The reason? I consider charting in a patient’s chart as part of the appointment. She gives the patient the full appointment time and charts after the appointment is over.

Who is right and wrong? We both get high scores in patient satisfaction. What accounts for our style? She is more nurturing. I am more to the point.


44 posted on 10/26/2016 5:54:57 PM PDT by Gamecock (Gun owner. Christian. Pro-American. Pro Law and Order. I am in the basket of deplorables.)
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To: nickcarraway

If housework is included on the woman’s side, then the honey-do list must be included. And all mandatory social events count as work for men. I’m pretty sure the scales will come back into balance.


45 posted on 10/26/2016 5:54:57 PM PDT by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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To: piytar

Most of my bosses were women. MOST were man haters and obviously couldn’t get laid so they destroyed and emasculated every guy under them.


46 posted on 10/26/2016 5:58:42 PM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: nickcarraway

It takes time to make a sandwich, bringing a beer, I respect ‘em for that work./s don’t hit, me, my daughter already has.


47 posted on 10/26/2016 5:59:19 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: nickcarraway
If this were true, the would would be awash in sammiches.
48 posted on 10/26/2016 6:28:31 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: nickcarraway

Great to hear. More time for men to R&R in their favorite watering hole without a big mouth spoiling the atmosphere.

Another one, Charley!


49 posted on 10/26/2016 6:30:18 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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Here's the "money" line:

Although men do 34% more paid work than women, women still spend more of their time on unpaid work such as housework, childcare and care for older people.

And men do more of the yard work, home repair work, auto maintenance work, and....

We take out the trash!

50 posted on 10/26/2016 6:33:55 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: madison10

Doesn’t mean much unless you know how many working women have a maid.


51 posted on 10/26/2016 6:35:23 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE; nickcarraway

If God intended them to do anything beside kitchen work, why did he fill them up with Milk and Eggs?

/S

(It’s a joke ladies)


52 posted on 10/26/2016 7:04:44 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Ouderkirk

Every place I worked, they take off more than men.

Have a manager that has had around 60 days off this year alone...

Tough woman but, she does take a lot of time off...


53 posted on 10/26/2016 7:05:44 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: mrsmith

Well, first they need a consensus to get anything done.

Men just do it and call it a day...


54 posted on 10/26/2016 7:06:26 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: BipolarBob

I did use the “/S” tag...


55 posted on 10/26/2016 7:06:55 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: piytar
What Utter Junk.

This is well beyond "Junk", even "Utter Junk". Such "studies" are more properly described as "Absolute, Unmitigated Garbage", although I'm not even quite sure that's sufficient.

56 posted on 10/26/2016 7:13:31 PM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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To: nickcarraway

Remember the old rule, folks: Work smarter, not harder.


57 posted on 10/26/2016 7:17:14 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: nickcarraway

(((YAWN))) Yeah, yeah, yeah.


58 posted on 10/26/2016 7:26:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Clintoon will be the "historical" first unindicted felon to sit in the Oval Office. Be proud!)
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To: nickcarraway

Probably they put the black men who never intended to work into the mix. Also all the illegals, majorly men, who never intended to work


59 posted on 10/26/2016 7:40:33 PM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: Vendome
They wouldn’t have to work so much if they weren’t so ineffective..../S

Not all jobs are created equal.

I don't care how many hours a woman who answers phones or waits tables works. Her job has nowhere near the physical demands as a construction worker.

Currently I commute 72 miles each way. When I was working 12 hour days and started at 7, my commute time was 3-1/2 hours every day. Do they include commute times?

Construction workers are overwhelmingly men. Often commuting an hour or more each day.

When it's raining, construction workers often have to suck it up and deal with it. In high heat, they often start earlier in the AM to avoid some of the higher heat. In winter, they have to wear an extra 10# of clothing to keep warm. Meanwhile women in offices complain that the AC is 2 degrees too cold for them.

When work is slow at home, construction workers often go on the road for work. Meanwhile, how many woman leave home for days, weeks or months on end, to work?

60 posted on 10/26/2016 8:01:39 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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