Melinda says:
“The reason I wrote that specific story [is that it’s] an example of this unpaid labor that women do all over the world. In the U.S., women do 90 minutes more of unpaid labor at home than their husbands do. That’s things like doing the dishes, carpooling, doing the laundry.
“Unless we look at that and redistribute it, we’re not going to let women do some of the more productive things they want to do.
“We are the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have paid family medical leave. So I would say to young women and men in this country who are in their 20s and 30s: Gender roles change when you start to have children. You need to question them, and you also need to say what should we do, public policy-wise, to support women.”
#15 I bet Melinda never has done dishes since she married Bill Gates. Some housekeeper does.