Mind the gap: gender differences in time use appear to be narrowing, but slowly
- Written by John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
ShutterstockThe Australian Bureau of Statistics has released its first time-use survey in 15 years. The last time it collected such data, in 2006, Apple was yet to release the iPhone and Facebook was a start-up.
So much has changed, though the differences in time use between men and women have not changed as much as many might like.
The new survey...
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