Perempuan masih melakukan sebagian besar pekerjaan tidak berbayar

oleh: James Goldie, 360 informasi di Melbourne

Survei di kawasan Asia-Pasifik terus menunjukkan jumlah pekerjaan tambahan tidak berbayar yang dilakukan perempuan.

Sebagai bagian dari surveinya tentang kesetaraan gender di rumah, Meta menanyakan kepada pengguna Facebook pada tahun 2021 berapa jam sehari yang mereka habiskan untuk pekerjaan rumah tangga atau perawatan yang tidak dibayar.

Hasilnya menunjukkan perbedaan yang mencolok antara pria dan wanita di sebagian besar negara. Di Selandia Baru, misalnya, hanya 22% laki-laki yang melaporkan melakukan lebih dari tiga jam sehari pekerjaan rumah tangga atau perawatan tanpa bayaran, sementara 39% perempuan melakukannya. Di Malaysia, 38 persen pria melaporkan bahwa mereka menghabiskan lebih dari tiga jam sehari, dibandingkan dengan 63 persen [percent of women.

Leaving unpaid domestic or care work to women is a problem in most countries across Asia-Pacific.

Similar surveys of Australians break this disparity down even further and show just how little improvement there has been in the last 20 years.

Australian men spent far less time doing housework and playing with their children than women.

In 2022, women aged 25–35 averaged 15.6 hours a week on housework and chores and another 17.5 hours a week playing with their children, compared to 7.9 hours of housework and chores for men and 7.3 hours a week playing with their children.

While total hours for paid and unpaid work appear similar between working-aged Australian men and women, men continue to spend more of that time on paid employment and their commute at the expense of unpaid forms of work — particularly housework and playing with their children.

This problem is about both who does unpaid work and how much time they spend doing it.

A pre-pandemic survey of time use in India showed that in both urban and rural areas, girls and women aged 6+ were several times more likely than boys and men to do care work and especially domestic work — and the ones who did spend several times as long doing it.

These multiplying disparities mean domestic work takes up about 10 times as much of girls and women’s time.

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