#womenslives

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Humans of Uganda

We spent two weeks traveling around Uganda, reporting on the lives of its women and girls 💪🏿 and it was 🙌🏿.

Hear / read / see our reporting: www.pri.org/sold  Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/womenslives

[penandswordbooks]

A fantastic turnout for the launch of the bestselling new release, Exploring the Wives of Women at The Foundling Museum on Saturday. 12 of the book’s 16 contributors are photographed: Sarah Oliver, Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Yvonne Noble (seated), Carolyn D Williams, Louise Duckling, Jacqueline Mullhalen (seated), Sara Read with baby Eliza, Gillian Williamson (seated), Peter Radford, Valerie Schutte, Julie Parkman and Felicity Roberts #BookLaunch #WomensLives #WomensHistory #History #WomensStudiesGroup #BooksToRead #Bookstagram (at The Foundling Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrNCP0rn0Ol/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1p634dy1d9cy5

[little-arctic-flower]

Found today on my travels a tin full of a woman's life from her marriage in 1930s to the birth of her grandson in the late 1970s ⭐️ generations of women's history in a sweet tin amongst hankies ⭐️ precious times ⭐️ just a reminder of the aim of the @palimpsest_project ⭐️ @cultivatorcornwall @openstudioscornwall ⭐️ #the_memory_seamstress #palimpsest_project #the_book_smith #history #homelife #memories #womenslives

[dawnstreetcred]

I think this says it all for me right now. ❤️❤️International Women’s Day will mean more when we truly support each other. No more shaming. No more envy. Just sisters doing our thing, our life. The older I get, the more I see that we all want the same fundamental things. We just say/do it differently. #womensrights #womenslives #womenhood #queens #powerinnumbers #supportwomen #sisters #sisterhood #life #love #supporteachother

[feimineach]

#womenslives: "When women are too busy cleaning and cooking, they have less time for paid work" - @olgakhazan

For example:

“American women spend more than two hours daily on chores, compared to just 82 minutes for men. Even in Finland, a country that seems more progressive on gender issues, women sweep, scrub, and change diapers for 137 minutes daily, and men do for just 91.”

Those differences are going to get pretty big over time. Look at this (complied bu OECD / Melinda Gates):

And here’s the thing:

“[…] when women are too busy cleaning and cooking, they have less time for paid work. Girls in many countries fall behind in school because they’re swamped with tedious chores.”

This is an equality, economic and development issue.

Piece by Olga Khazan on the Atlantic:

All over the world, women are doing work they’re not getting paid for. In rich countries, it might be folding the laundry or staying home to take care of a sick child. In developing countries, unpaid labor tends to be more physically arduous, like hauling water and chopping wood. Wherever you are, it’s considered women’s work.

Melinda Gates picked up on this disparity in her travels throughout the world. Every year, she and her husband, Bill Gates, write a letter outlining their philanthropic priorities. This year, she devoted her portion of the letter to the burdens of unpaid work on women.

“Unless things change, girls today will spend hundreds of thousands more hours than boys doing unpaid work simply because society assumes it’s their responsibility,” she writes in the letter, which is written for a teenage audience.

According to the OECD and other sources, women devote more time than men to chores in nearly every country. American women spend more than two hours daily on chores, compared to just 82 minutes for men. Even in Finland, a country that seems more progressive on gender issues, women sweep, scrub, and change diapers for 137 minutes daily, and men do for just 91.

© and read the rest of this piece: Melinda Gates and the gender gap in household chores (the atlantic)

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