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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The article says that women work 4 unpaid hours a day and men work 2.5 unpaid hours a day.

So all the hubbub is about 1.5 hours of unpaid work/day.

[b]Is the article trying to make fun of SAHM's?[/b][/quote]

Make fun of? No.  The article is to motivate to say, "[i]Hey, expect more from your husband.  whether you work outside of the home or not.[/i]"  Especially if your husband is in the less than 2 1/2 hour category, because I think we can agree that some men do their share (or more). We've come along way from 1965, but we have a ways to go before things are equal.

[b]In the United States, women perform an average of four hours of unpaid work per day compared to men’s two and a half hours. Back in 1965, when the government first started keeping track, American women did almost all of the unpaid work in the home. Although the gender gap in unpaid labor has narrowed, women still perform a disproportionate amount of unpaid work — and on top of their full-time jobs.[/b][/quote]

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