{"id":35170,"date":"2011-04-09T11:47:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T16:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=35170"},"modified":"2011-10-23T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T22:14:24","slug":"international-comparison-of-gender-and-unpaid-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/09\/international-comparison-of-gender-and-unpaid-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"International Comparison of Gender and Unpaid Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deeb K. sent in a story from the <em>New York Times<\/em> about <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/10\/women-lead-in-unpaid-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">who does unpaid work<\/a> &#8212; that is, the housework, carework, and volunteering that people do without financial compensation. Based on time-use surveys by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), this chart shows how many more minutes per day women in various nations spend doing such activities compared to men:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/work.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35171 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/work-500x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/work-500x217.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/work.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Childcare stuck out as an area with a particularly large gap:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On child care in particular, mothers spend more than twice as much time  per day as fathers do: 1 hour 40 minutes for mothers, on average,  compared to 42 minutes for fathers&#8230;On average, working fathers spend only 10 minutes more per day on child  care when they are not working, whereas working mothers spend nearly  twice as much time (144 minutes vs. 74) when not working.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd-ilibrary.org\/docserver\/download\/fulltext\/5kghrjm8s142.pdf?expires=1302367815&amp;id=0000&amp;accname=guest&amp;checksum=BF8F7B12DF5CF42231A6D7B473770DDD\" target=\"_blank\">full OECD report<\/a> breaks down types of unpaid work (this is overall, including data for both men and women):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/work1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35172 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/work1-500x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/work1-500x262.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/work1.jpg 943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study also found that <em>non-working<\/em> fathers spend less time on childcare than <em>working<\/em> mothers in almost every country in the study (p. 19). And mothers and fathers do different types of childcare, with dads doing more of what we might think of as the &#8220;fun stuff&#8221; (p. 20):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/childcare.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35173 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/childcare-500x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/childcare-500x238.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/childcare.jpg 1005w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Miranda, V. 2011. &#8220;Cooking, Caring and Volunteering: Unpaid Work around the World.&#8221; <em>OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers<\/em>, No. 116. OECD Publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deeb K. sent in a story from the New York Times about who does unpaid work &#8212; that is, the housework, carework, and volunteering that people do without financial compensation. Based on time-use surveys by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), this chart shows how many more minutes per day women in various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,55,2099,2088,2100,260,272,1765,1766,1767,1811,1770,1772,2055,8104,2026,1776,1777,4127,1784,1817,1819,1821,1824,1790,1791,1794,1795,8088,1801,1788,1802,1804,1789,1807,76],"class_list":["post-35170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-gender-work","tag-international-comparisons","tag-marriagefamily","tag-nation-australia","tag-nation-austria","tag-nation-belgium","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-nation-canada","tag-nation-china","tag-nation-denmark","tag-nation-estonia","tag-nation-finland","tag-nation-france","tag-nation-germany","tag-nation-hungary","tag-nation-india","tag-nation-ireland","tag-nation-italy","tag-nation-japan","tag-nation-mexico","tag-nation-new-zealand","tag-nation-norway","tag-nation-poland","tag-nation-portugal","tag-nation-slovenia","tag-nation-south-africa","tag-nation-south-korea","tag-nation-spain","tag-nation-sweden","tag-nation-the-netherlands","tag-nation-turkey","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40900,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35170\/revisions\/40900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}