Letters

More than half the sky

On this anniversary of the international labor movement, we wish to bring to the attention of both the public and policy-makers the greater burden of unpaid labor that Chinese women are bearing.

Many countries are examining the amount of unpaid work women undertake, without which our world would be a far worse place. For example, women do two thirds of the 25 billion hours of unpaid work undertaken across North America. Women and men in Australia have similar workloads but women spend 6.4 times as many hours doing unpaid work.