Shared inequalities: at work and at home
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Stephen S Holden
Just as women face challenges in participating in the work domain, so men face challenges participating in the home domain.
Emma Watson in her much-discussed UN speech observed that inequalities faced by women are everyone’s problem, and importantly, they are only a part of the problem.
Just as inequalities are overlooked, so too are the solutions. Annabel Crabb recently observed that career women are frequently asked about how they manage their family lives while men never are.
Her solution is deceptively simple: “I don’t think the answer is to stop asking women. The answer is to start asking men.”
How are you managing your home life?
This question offers more than a promise of equal treatment of working women and men. It also draws attention to the need for work at home.
Unpaid household work is estimated to be equivalent to 50% of GDP. Who does this work? Women do. At a rate almost two times that of men and even greater if they have children.
However, while women...
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