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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“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.”
In other words, they counted work under conditions where the worker is not judged, graded, reviewed, or required to accomplish anything and faces no chance of being fired. Working under conditions where the value of their work has no objective measurement, nobody to fire them for working slow or slacking off or making mistakes, yet is counted the same as paid work.
Less efficient?
When the wife and I were both working, we split the household tasks. Now that we’re retired, we split the household tasks....
Hey honey, get me another beer....
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Priceless! I’m bookmarking this post for later use.
A man he works from sun to sun
But a woman’s work is never done
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