The Guardian view on women’s unpaid labour: attitudes have shifted, but the burden hasn’t | Editorial
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The Guardian view on women’s unpaid labour: attitudes have shifted, but the burden hasn’t | Editorial
In order to be fair, these decisions must also be made in a context where men and women have genuinely equal opportunities: there is nothing fair about a situation in which women “choose” to take on the bulk of unpaid care work because they face discrimination at work or in education, as has so often been the case.
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“Until men and fathers are recognised as having equal responsibility for parenting, the onus will always be on women to care and accept lower-paid part-time roles with fewer opportunities for career progression – a leading factor in the gender pay gap,” she explained
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Women do almost three times the care work of men, they do 60% more of the unpaid labour and that's obviously devastating for their careers. Many of us are working full-time, more than three-quarters of mothers work. So you have a situation where we're going to work, doing all of this paid work, and then coming back and doing unpaid work as well. Ma... See more
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The vast number of married women in the paid labor force called into question the assumption that they should be responsible for all household chores when they, like their husbands, came home after a hard day at work.