Women spend twice as much time caregiving as men, according to a survey

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Valley News - Health
WASHINGTON – The National Partnership for Women & Families released a new analysis that demonstrates how wide the caregiving gap is between men and women across the United States. Through analysis of the recently released 2022 American Time Use Survey, the National Partnership found that men report doing only half as much caregiving of children, other family members and people outside of their home, as women – meaning that women spend an additional 153 hours providing unpaid care each year, or four full work weeks.Unfortunately, this caregiving gap is clear across Asian women, Black women, white women and Latinas, compared to men overall. Latinas spend the most time caregiving across all groups.“It’s clear that care work is valuable labor, but we rarely treat it as such
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