Women's Work?

 “Women are the creatures of an organised tyranny of men, as workers are the creatures of an organised tyranny of idlers.” - Eleanor Marx

Half of working-age women are providing an average of 45 hours of unpaid care every week, while a quarter of men do17 hours.

Every year women in the UK are providing 23.2bn hours of unpaid childcare care worth an estimated £382bn, while men provide 9.7bn worth £160bn, according to the thinktank Centre for Progressive Policy.

Calling unpaid work “one of the driving forces of gender-based inequalities in the workplace”, the CPP found that caring responsibilities “disproportionately impact women and exacerbate workplace inequality”.

Almost half of working-age women in UK do 45 hours of unpaid care a week – study (yahoo.com)