British women are working in lower paid and lower status jobs than British men because they still have more responsibility for housework and childcare; That is the conclusion of a Cambridge University study.The comprehensibility that women do the domestic duties, creates a vicious circle because then they are less able to work the long hours needed to win top jobs. They then earn less and are obliged to do household tasks.
The divide also leaves women with a longer working day, despite earning less, according to the study. The average working week for a woman in Europe is 68 hours, including paid and domestic work - for a man this is 55 hours in full-time employment.
Only if the lifestyle divide changes will women have equal opportunities in the world of work, say the researchers. "The working lifestyles of most people in Europe still are determined by gender," they say. "In many cases, we were surprised by how little the results for EU nations like Britain, Germany and France have changed since 1991." The best way to break the circle would be to assimilate gender inequality in employment and the household" . Encouraging men to do more in the household would be a step towards this target.
I think that every man has to do as much as his wife in the household, because women also deserve a change to make career.
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I think women would never get paid as much as man. It would come closer, but never the same
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