'Women short-changed as 65% of weekly working hours ignored in official data'
Oxfam said unpaid caring and domestic responsibilities are rendered invisible in the formal economy and not valued properly.
Source: lbc.co.uk
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Most work done by women globally 'is unpaid', Oxfam says
Official economic statistics are misleading because they fail to take into account work such as unpaid care and cleaning, Oxfam said. It described gross domestic product as "anti-feminist and colonial".
Source: sky.com
Oxfam brands GDP 'colonial and anti-feminist'
Charity argues fixation on the metric leads to policies that 'directly harm women'
Source: telegraph.co.uk
How the system ignores women's labour
Almost two-thirds of women’s working hours each week are unpaid and “ignored” by official statistics measuring economic activity
Source: socialistworker.co.uk
Are most working women 'unpaid' worldwide?
Oxfam found that international labour data does not represent 65 per cent of women's working hours in the UK.
Source: ibtimes.co.uk