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Census 2016: Women are still disadvantaged by the amount of unpaid housework they do

  • Written by Leah Ruppanner, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Melbourne
imageResearch shows women consistently trade time in employment for greater time in domestic work even when their resources are on par with men. f1uffster (Jeanie)/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

The first release of data from the 2016 Census shows the typical Australian woman spends between five and 14 hours a week doing unpaid domestic housework. For the typical...

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