Below are the best resources we could find on Household Labor and female empowerment.
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In an era of seemingly unprecedented feminist activism, enlightenment, and change, data shows that one area of gender inequality stubbornly persists: the disproportionate amount of parental work that falls to women, no matter their background, class, or professional status.
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Despite the fact that women outnumber men in the paid workforce, women still do more of the domestic work and childcare—almost twice as much as their male partners.
COVID-19 has exposed enduring inequality in domestic divisions of labor.
When Americans think about fixing gender equality, they tend to focus on the workplace. But gender equality for women still lags in another realm: their own houses.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, the author of Why Women Still Can’t Have It All, says that the missing factor in the women’s movement is an emphasis on caregiving policies. Work, for the most part, is stratified into to separate categories: caregiving and breadwinning.
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