In Italy, for example, 230 minutes of the day is spent on housework, shopping, care work, and "volunteering". That's more than the 204 minutes in India or 179 minutes in China and far more than the 149 minutes per day spent in Italy on paid work.
And at least part of those four categories is unpaid work.
> Italian campaigners call for housewives to be paid a salary ...
> But a prominent pair of campaigners in Italy, a country with an estimated 5 million casalinghe (housewives), a moribund jobs market and a lingering patriarchal culture, this week threw their weight behind an eye-catching proposal they say would boost equality and fight domestic abuse: a salary for women working in the home. ...
> "I want to destroy this great prejudice that says: 'I am the one who earns; you have nothing,'" she said, adding that women who chose to work at home should be rewarded, not humiliated. "They must not be considered B-list citizens," she said
This "ourworldindata" site continues with this prejudice by only considering "paid work" as "work".
If unpaid work is included as work, then China's 315 minutes of paid work + (56 + 123) of unpaid work = 494 minutes.
While the US's 251 minutes of paid work + (96 + 122) of unpaid work = 469 minutes. That's only 25 minutes less. (And most of that extra time in the US is spent on "TV & Radio".)
But their data at https://ourworldindata.org/rich-poor-working-hours shows that unpaid work is about 40% of the overall work, so a significant factor. (I'm eyeballing that "40%" characterization.)
In Italy, for example, 230 minutes of the day is spent on housework, shopping, care work, and "volunteering". That's more than the 204 minutes in India or 179 minutes in China and far more than the 149 minutes per day spent in Italy on paid work.
And at least part of those four categories is unpaid work.
I single out Italy, which is an outlier, because I recall reading things like https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/07/italian-campai... :
> Italian campaigners call for housewives to be paid a salary ...
> But a prominent pair of campaigners in Italy, a country with an estimated 5 million casalinghe (housewives), a moribund jobs market and a lingering patriarchal culture, this week threw their weight behind an eye-catching proposal they say would boost equality and fight domestic abuse: a salary for women working in the home. ...
> "I want to destroy this great prejudice that says: 'I am the one who earns; you have nothing,'" she said, adding that women who chose to work at home should be rewarded, not humiliated. "They must not be considered B-list citizens," she said
This "ourworldindata" site continues with this prejudice by only considering "paid work" as "work".
If unpaid work is included as work, then China's 315 minutes of paid work + (56 + 123) of unpaid work = 494 minutes.
While the US's 251 minutes of paid work + (96 + 122) of unpaid work = 469 minutes. That's only 25 minutes less. (And most of that extra time in the US is spent on "TV & Radio".)