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Following up on this post:

Have you ever heard of “time poverty?” – here’s why it’s the biggest issue preventing gender equality

“Across the globe, women spend about 4.5 hours a day on unpaid labor, such as child care and household chores. For men, that figure drops in half.

That’s according to data cited by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which identified the issue of time poverty as a central focus in an annual letter released by its wealthy benefactors. In poor countries, the unpaid labor gap grows. Women in India, for example, spend an estimated six hours a day on unpaid labor. Men there spend just an hour on such chores.

The expectations affect a woman’s ability to work outside the home.

“She doesn’t even get out of the house in that situation. She is trapped in that home,” Melinda Gates told Refinery29 during a round table interview earlier this year. “So she doesn’t even get to go to the market, or participate in a job.“

Read the full piece here

@profeminist Lefty Cartoons has cartoons that deal with this topic too. Check out ‘how the Feminist Revolution wasn’t completed’ and ‘another mum gets screwed over by a tiny advantage’. 

Love your work :) 

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Readers, click the links from the share above for

relevant & on-target cartoons! 

I do like this cartoonist a lot and have shared some of his pieces in the past. You can browse his site by category, here are the feminist ones: http://leftycartoons.com/category/feminist/