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Is it "usually women" who do the unglamorous jobs that no one else wants to do? This doesn't really seem true, but maybe you have a source that shows it?

iamacyborg 5y ago
> From cooking and cleaning, to fetching water and firewood or taking care of children and the elderly, women carry out at least two and a half times more unpaid household and care work than men. https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/csw61/redistribute-unpaid-work https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/csw61/redistribute-...
- bbarnett 5y ago
  If one is in a commune, all work is unpaid, so how is this relatable? If referencing modern society in the west, who is fetching wood and water?! Is this stat from 1870?
  - iamacyborg 5y ago
    > If referencing modern society in the west, who is fetching wood and water?! There's more to unpaid labour than fetching wood and water. Women still do significantly more housework than men, even if both hold full time employment.
    - bbarnett 5y ago
      That may be true, or untrue. However, citing a stat from before anyone was born, isn't helpful in a modern context. Replying to this with "it is still true, because", now that your citation fell flat on its face, may not be the best strategy.
- unpolloloco 5y ago
  Unpaid doesn't always mean that it's the least glamorous (in the absence of compensation for anyone). Take anything on Dirty Jobs, for example. If you're talking the difference between washing laundry and cleaning out septic tanks most people would prefer one over the other in the absence of other pay.
booleandilemma 5y ago
From what I’ve seen, men get stuck with the jobs women don’t want to do. Just look at our current society. Who are the miners, the garbage workers, the delivery people? You’ll notice there’s a push to get women into comfy office jobs like programmer and not strenuous jobs like oil rig worker. Someone can reply to me and cherry pick to show counter examples but for the most part it’s men doing these jobs.

iamacyborg 5y ago

> From cooking and cleaning, to fetching water and firewood or taking care of children and the elderly, women carry out at least two and a half times more unpaid household and care work than men. https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/csw61/redistribute-unpaid-work https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/csw61/redistribute-...

bbarnett 5y ago
If one is in a commune, all work is unpaid, so how is this relatable? If referencing modern society in the west, who is fetching wood and water?! Is this stat from 1870?
- iamacyborg 5y ago
  > If referencing modern society in the west, who is fetching wood and water?! There's more to unpaid labour than fetching wood and water. Women still do significantly more housework than men, even if both hold full time employment.
  - bbarnett 5y ago
    That may be true, or untrue. However, citing a stat from before anyone was born, isn't helpful in a modern context. Replying to this with "it is still true, because", now that your citation fell flat on its face, may not be the best strategy.
unpolloloco 5y ago
Unpaid doesn't always mean that it's the least glamorous (in the absence of compensation for anyone). Take anything on Dirty Jobs, for example. If you're talking the difference between washing laundry and cleaning out septic tanks most people would prefer one over the other in the absence of other pay.

booleandilemma 5y ago

From what I’ve seen, men get stuck with the jobs women don’t want to do. Just look at our current society. Who are the miners, the garbage workers, the delivery people? You’ll notice there’s a push to get women into comfy office jobs like programmer and not strenuous jobs like oil rig worker. Someone can reply to me and cherry pick to show counter examples but for the most part it’s men doing these jobs.