There has been growing awareness on unpaid emotional & domestic labor performed by women world wide. In developed countries, women are asking that mental load & domestic work be shared between partners and among family members.
According to Oxfam reports, unpaid domestic labor by American women run into approximately 3.6 trillion dollars annually. This is calculated as per minimum wages. If you look at unpaid labor done by the women of the most ppoulated democracy, that is India, it’s estimated to be 11 trillion dollars annually. How will the world economy change if women began doing less unpaid labor? Will economies & societies change for the better? Since people will have to be hired for child care, elder care and all sorts of domestic work, will it provide more employment opportunities for paid work? Some economists might say that world economies will collapse without women’s unpaid labor but the current state of global economy doesn’t benefit a staggering amount of humanity especially women, girls and marginalised people.
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I’m an investment banker working 80+ hours per week and I still need to do majority of the household work. It’s so shit. Men and their weaponized incompetence enrages me. Even when my boyfriend offers to help out, he’s unable to do things correctly and has 0 concept of hygiene. Even can’t do simple stuff like replacing the toothpaste when it’s run out, soaking the dishes in water, etc. I’m so sick of it and I’m really considering just living alone for the rest of my life.
> people will have to be hired for child care, elder care and all sorts of domestic work
That would just be outsourcing the labour to other women, for minimum pay. The solution is for men and women to share the work and the leisure time. Especially now, with all the appliances and automation, it’s never been easier. But this would require men to give up some of their free time, and that won’t happen unless the alternative is to be single. And it’s starting to happen already, which is why there’s a global backlash and all this bs about “male loneliness”.