Women do a month more work than men

WOMEN are doing a month’s more work than men each year — essentially taking on a ‘second shift’ in unpaid domestic jobs at home in addition to their paid employment, a new report reveals today.

Domestic jobs like cleaning, cooking and caring for children mean that women are working 39 minutes longer per day than men.

An Equality Authority report released today, the first of its kind, calls for paid paternity leave and new laws to guarantee flexible working arrangements for men, which could help increase equality for female partners or spouses.