In India, traditional gender roles and cultural expectations often dictate that women are responsible for managing the household and taking care of family members. Women thus, spend more than two and a half times the minutes per day on unpaid activity than men.
This results in a disproportionate burden on women, limiting their opportunities for paid employment outside the home and contributing to gender inequality.
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The Wages for Housework movement was founded in 1972. On October 24 1975, 90% of Iceland’s women refused to work, cook or look after children. But we know very little about the discourse on unpaid and domestic care work in India.
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