In countries with strict gender roles, women’s total work hours
tend to increase as they perform more paid labor outside the home. In Spain,
for example, women’s work at home (housework and child care) declined by only 6
hours per week as their workplace labor increased by 8 hours per week from 2002
through 2010, say Jose Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal of the University of Zaragoza in
Spain and Almudena Sevilla of Queen Mary University of London in the UK. The
result is that Spanish women lost 2 hours of weekly leisure time over that
period. A decline in leisure hours suggests a declining quality of life.
SOURCE: Total work time
in Spain: evidence from time diary data
Stephanie Doty
Women's Issues Matter
March 24, 2014
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