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Due to the spread of the new corona virus, unpaid work at home, such as housework and parenting, is becoming more biased towards women around the world, revealed a report by the Women’s Organization of The United Nations. By digitizing unpaid working hours, which is hard to see, she said, “in many countries, women suffer fewer hours of work and unemployment than men due to increased unpaid work at home.” analyze. (Mari Yuki)
◆ Greater widening of the gap in unpaid work
The report was published in late November based on statistical analysis and interviews in 54 countries, including Japan. Since the spread of the infection, the percentage of respondents that time spent in unpaid work has “increased” was 6 points higher than 60% for women and 54% for men. According to a survey by the International Labor Organization (ILO) (2018), the number of hours of unpaid work per day for women is more than 4 hours, which is three times higher than that of men. It can be said that the disparity was further widened due to the crown disaster.
The increase in the burden on women is noticeable in the care of children’s personal effects, which increased by 5.2 hours per week, far exceeding 3.5 hours for men. Apart from that, the number of women increased for cooking, cleaning / washing, shopping, etc. The increase in men was in the care of pets and families of the elderly and adults with disabilities.
◆ Report “By the end of the year, around 470 million women will be in extreme poverty.”
“The global epidemic of the new Crown has highlighted that the global economy and everyday life would not be possible without the unpaid work that women do,” the report says. The population of non-working women, which has increased due to the crown disaster, is 1.7 times that of men, and warns that 13% of the world’s women (about 470 million people) will be in the extreme poverty at the end of the year.
According to the United Nations Organization for Women, if 2 billion women in the world work 8 hours a day without pay, the monetary value is 11 trillion dollars (about 1100 trillion), which is 9% of total national production (GDP) of each country. Analyze when it becomes (yen). “I would like the governments of each country to pay attention to this result and consider providing free care for children to all people,” said Sara Duerto Valero, the regional advisor in charge.
◆ Union survey “Little men take care of children who are closed”
Also in Japan, the Union carried out a survey on childcare in late October. When asked 828 working men and women with daycare / kindergarten children who cared for their children during the holidays due to the crown, 80% of the women answered “I” and more than 80% of the men said “Spouse / partner”. The person in charge said: “The sensation on the skin that wrinkles felt in women due to the simultaneous closing and closing was actually shown in numbers.”
The Cabinet Office is investigating the real situation of domestic work in a study group made up of university professors and plans to produce an interim report by the end of this year.
Professor Junya Tsutsui (Family Sociology) from Ritsumeikan University, a member of the study group, said: “Housework in Japan is extremely biased towards women. Basically, it is safe to say that men do not do housework and there is hardly any discussion. ” Indicated. Emeritus Professor Shinmiko Takenobu (Sociology of Work) from Wako University says: “Data is important in rendering gender disparities and life difficulties that women have vaguely felt as social problems.”
