Idolising the ‘homemaker’ and ’motherhood’ role of women, gives a social sanction to thrusting the majority of burden of unpaid household and other care work on them, while giving an escape to men from child-rearing and household chores, and .
This is the 3rd part of a four-part data journalism series on key trends in Periodic Labour Force Survey. The 4th will show changes in India’s rural job market. | Latest News India
NAIDOC Week can mean additional labour for Aboriginal people in workplaces. New research has found this is not just around NAIDOC Week, and Aboriginal women are disproportionately affected.
Without addressing women’s disproportionate contribution to unpaid care work and poorly compensated physical labour, the state cannot expect them to make time for the WHO recommended “150 minutes of physical activity”.
While most heterosexual couples are dual-earners, super rich couples continue to have gender-traditional arrangements in which the man is the sole breadwinner.