Practice question · True or false
Time-use surveys find unpaid domestic and care work divided roughly equally between women and men across the European Union.
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- Hochschild named the phenomenon the second shift in 1989.
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False
Why
False. Every EU time-use survey finds women doing substantially more unpaid domestic and care work, in every member state, including those with the highest female employment rates. The gap has narrowed over decades, largely because men’s contribution rose modestly and women’s fell as paid hours increased.
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