"Domestic work is not counted as real work in our social fabric," said Deepa Ebenezer, a research scholar working on the changing nature of domestic work at the Madras Institute of Development Studies.
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And some jobs, such as domestic work, are entirely unpaid.
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Domestic Work is a book of detailed and beautiful historical monologues.
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It would also address issues that make domestic work so precarious.
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Her captor was convicted on slavery and forced domestic work charges.
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Domestic work, and particularly home care, is consistently among the fastest growing occupations in America, and we're projected to have a greater need for domestic work than our current workforce growth will be able to meet.
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It's possible that this sort of telepresence domestic work could be beneficial.
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In agriculture, domestic work and manufacturing this share rose to over 70%.
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The domestic work force is growing slowly, and lately, so is productivity.
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Domestic work has deep roots in the legacy of slavery and colonialism.
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Condori has been unable to do physically demanding agricultural or domestic work.
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Others told of being made to do domestic work at a manager's house.
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This message was particularly important for women in vulnerable industries such as domestic work.
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But, actually, the largest concentration of undocumented laborers are found in the domestic work industry.
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Most child labor exists in agriculture, along with domestic work, forced begging and garbage scavenging.
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He's documenting their dreaming of their lives outside of domestic work — opportunities that were broader.
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Men in Japan do fewer hours of domestic work than in any other wealthy nation.
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There were no women around, so they had to do some of the domestic work.
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While this type of arrangement is not uncommon in domestic work, it flouts minimum wage laws.
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They may end up in domestic work, small industries such as textile workshops, farming or brothels.
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"This legislation is about visualizing an invisible workforce and having domestic work be recognized as work."
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Forced labor victims were found most often in domestic work, agriculture, fishing, restaurants, construction and mining.
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The international outcry following such incidents has compelled some governments to improve their domestic work regulations.
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They found manual or domestic work but were homesick and had a feeling of being trapped.
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Wrapped in the guise of women's domestic work, these paintings speak volumes with only a few words.
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But spaces typically occupied by women — domestic work and service industry jobs — were shut out from amnesty.
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We might have driverless cars or drones delivering packages, but robots are not taking domestic work jobs.
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She did domestic work for Spaniards who were constructing factories in the early years of the revolution.
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Donkeys often are an essential lifeline for farmers who use them for transport, domestic work and milk.
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Because our culture has devalued domestic work, caring for houses and children remains low-paying and unregulated.
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And its efforts could serve as a model in other industries, like fast food or domestic work.
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More women are also doing paid work than ever before, but men are not doing more domestic work.
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Barrett's job—domestic work—is the crucial but unseen labor done behind the closed doors of private homes.
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Domestic work takes place in private homes, which means even the best law can be difficult to implement.
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The country has seen growth in service jobs like domestic work, where black and Latina women are overrepresented.
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A paid work strike, a domestic work strike, a care strike, a school strike and a consumer strike.
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And in the beginning of the Jim Crow era, domestic work was more than a system of labor.
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"The government has drafted a regulation on domestic work but still it has not been enacted," he said.
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Domestic work often serves as a way out for the economically vulnerable, which only adds to the picture.
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Lebanon's labor law does not cover domestic work, which means domestic workers do not have the right to unionize.
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Campaigners have blamed the dilution of the country's child labor act for more children being trafficked for domestic work.
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Yet as women contribute more to household income, they're still also doing the majority of the unpaid domestic work.
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Then there's the longstanding tension of domestic work—a category under which I'd plop bed frame concern and selection.
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For example, the United Nations reported that women do nearly three times as much unpaid domestic work as men.
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It increased its domestic work force from 93,000 employees in 2011 to over 180,000 at the end of 2016.
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Therefore no domestic work for her in England, and when she tries France, she has no better luck there.
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Eighty percent of them work exclusively as vendors, while nine also work second jobs as cleaners or other domestic work.
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By Siddhartha Deb Art and domestic work both have to be approached with love and rigor to be well done.
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Experts say trafficking cases - which include forced labor and marriage, domestic work and the sex trade - are on the rise.
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Most are from poorer neighboring countries, including Myanmar and Cambodia, and work in sectors such as seafood and domestic work.
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She explains that women—and men—will always have unpaid domestic work to do, and this isn't a bad thing.
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She cannot work, save for domestic work around the house, which is 400 miles away from her family in Delhi.
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The wives now live in their two-room house with their elderly mother-in-law, doing domestic work for a living.
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"Traffickers just pose as recruiters and lure people into forced prostitution or domestic work with false promises of jobs," Mutevu said.
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Most were from the eastern state of West Bengal and forced into domestic work, prostitution and debt bondage across the country.
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I have played down the domestic work I do as if it were something contagious I don't want them to catch.
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What's more, women still do nearly three times as much unpaid domestic work as men, according to a United Nations report.
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I remember that they even nicknamed me 'Tecla', which is a word for the kind of girl who does domestic work.
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A Home Office briefing note lists 483 types of abuse, ranging from forced labour to coercing spouses or servants into domestic work.
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While some girls escape, or are released, others are forced to wed, made to do domestic work, and kept from their families.
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Foreign workers are around 40% of Singapore's workforce, with slightly less than half of those on restrictive domestic-work and construction visas.
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Those targeted range from men forced to kill for criminal groups to indigenous women duped into domestic work under slave-like conditions.
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Rather, the activist and author is seeking recognition of the value of domestic work, and to raise its status and pay accordingly.
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To address these shortcomings, eight states, as well as the city of Seattle, have passed laws to protect and strengthen domestic work.
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"Low pay is a systemic problem in the domestic work industry," said Andrea Cristina Mercado, the National Domestic Workers' Alliance campaign director.
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Despite massive strides made for women's legal rights, women are still expected to do the majority of domestic work and emotional labor.
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Other tech giants like Amazon and Google have made similar moves to expand their domestic work force in the past few months.
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While women are doing more paid work than in the past, research has found, men aren't doing that much more domestic work.
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The New Deal's fair labor standards applied only to industrial jobs in factories and offices; agricultural and domestic work were deliberately excluded.
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Both workforces -- domestic work and farm work -- are disproportionately made up of women of color and immigrants, many of whom are undocumented.
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Read the letter, then tell us: • Do you agree that domestic work "is valuable, but it is not valued" in our society?
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But barring a miracle, it remains up to both parents to work together and find a way to more equitably divide domestic work.
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As labor done disproportionately by African American women, domestic work was further devalued and marginalized on the bases of both race and gender.
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Rooted yet atmospheric, hand-knotted threads recall feminized (and increasingly migrant) labors, such as domestic work or care work, that make spaces habitable.
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"The result is that we have far less investigation into trafficking in far more common areas," like domestic work, farm labor, and manufacturing.
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Given the private nature of domestic work, this arrangement provides impunity for employers to verbally and physically abuse the migrants they live with.
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"Many migrant workers in the sex trade, domestic work, and agriculture emigrate and work voluntarily," said Savannah Sly, board president of SWOP-USA.
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Having more immigrants around to do domestic work induces native-born women to join the workforce, spurring economic growth and improving their lives.
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It also bans domestic work for people under the age of 15 and limits work hours to six per day for older teenagers.
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And although G.M. has a smaller domestic work force than its American rivals, Ford Motor and Fiat Chrysler, it presented an inviting target.
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Women around the world do more care and domestic work than men, and their resulting mobility habits are hobbled by most transport systems.
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From The Times: After a recent article about the gender imbalance in domestic work in Japan, we asked readers to share their experiences.
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My daughter will have an easier time juggling family and career because in 2016, men are contributing more to domestic work and child care.
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"Domestic work is work being done behind closed doors in private homes, and it is work being done largely by Black women," Virturro said.
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In 123, UNICEF USA launched the Kid Power program, which links global initiatives that combat malnutrition with domestic work that centers on children's health.
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Passing this Bill of Rights will demonstrate that domestic work is not only work, but work that is critical to our economy and society.
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" The ministry added that the study didn't consider the "unique nature" of domestic work, saying that work and personal time "cannot be easily differentiated.
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Domestic work makes up a large percentage of that, and is the largest industry of labor trafficking reports to the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
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In industries like domestic work where workers still lack basic rights like a minimum wage, it's especially hard to identify and root out exploitation.
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IBM also placed restrictions on employee travel, including limits on domestic work travel and a ban on attending events with more than 1,000 people.
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To reduce the amount of time women devote to unpaid and devalued domestic work, men simply have to take on some of the workload themselves.
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During the first few years of parenthood, I made the mistake of bringing up the domestic work imbalance whenever I witnessed it in real time.
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He did not say whether the victims were male or female, but most of the Indonesians who go abroad to do domestic work are women.
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I am looking for that ending, that resolution, looking for it in domestic work as I look for the end of a novel by writing.
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In Evening in Paradise in particular, one thread that runs quietly but insistently through the book is women doing domestic work while men make art.
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If left unchecked, advocates say, the current structure of domestic work and other low-wage industries will continue to leave the vulnerable open to abuse.
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Women undertake the bulk of domestic work and child care that is unpaid and uninsured, which leaves many women exposed to poverty in old age.
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In this convening of vernacular art, you'll often find the application of found objects and nods to domestic work through the brilliant use of textile.
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Globally, the International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that 16 million people are in forced labor exploitation in industries such as construction, agriculture and domestic work.
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For instance, women in Japan spend four times more time than men doing unpaid labor like domestic work and household management, according to the report.
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Afghanistan strengthened its laws in January 2017 to address a rise in human trafficking, including forced labor and marriage, domestic work and the sex trade.
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The women in the cult, Ivy (Alison Pill), Beverly (Adina Porter), and Winter (Billie Lourd), have been subjugated to domestic work at the Butcher on Main.
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The pink tax, the wage gap, the debt gap, the funding gap, the domestic work (and emotional labor) gap and — my personal crusade — the investing gap.
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Hundreds of thousands of Indonesians are illegal migrants in Malaysia, doing construction, plantation and domestic work that pays much more than they could earn at home.
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Even after slavery was abolished, domestic work was one of a few professions available to Black women until the Civil Rights movement opened up more opportunities.
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On her mother's side, her great-great-grandmother, Eustace "Eya" King, left Barbados between 1900 and 1910 for the United States, where she did domestic work.
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Besides the seafood industry, exploitative practices have been recorded in domestic work, construction, agriculture, livestock, hospitality, garment manufacturing and other sectors in the country, it said.
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"Men's success often could not come about without the wife's support she provides in taking on the majority of the childcare and domestic work," Yavorsky says.
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People can be trafficked into labor of any kind, Emerson said, from domestic work to restaurant work to work in a nail salon or massage parlor.
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The fair valuation and distribution of domestic work has long been a subject of debate, sometimes in the form of a demand for wages for housework.
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The "material feminist" reformers … who flourished between 1870 and 1930, sought to reappropriate the space and to redesign it to socialize domestic work ... Such inventions were squelched.
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Crombie agrees that domestic work should be shared out equally, but takes issue with Reid's conclusion that this is drudgery that should not be celebrated on Instagram.
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Many are lured from poor, rural areas with the promise of good jobs or marriage, but then sold into domestic work, prostitution, brick kilns or textile industries.
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Domestic work and the workforce of caretaking, primarily composed of women, holds particular significance to every single one of us, whether you're aware of it or not.
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The most commonly cited industries for modern slaves in the U.S. include domestic work, farm work, factory work, door-to-door sales and restaurant and food services.
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Only one industry is expected to grow faster and add more jobs to the US economy than domestic work in the coming years: the renewable energy business.
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"Girls doing domestic work, children in agriculture, those working with their parents are totally discounted... What we see is just the tip of the iceberg," said Sesuraj.
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Her father picked cotton during the day, and handled a lot of the domestic work at home while her mother built a career in real estate sales.
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Black women, for instance, are more likely to work in food service, domestic work, and home healthcare — all some of the worst paying occupations in the country.
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Domestic work takes place behind the closed doors of a private residence where women are isolated and out of view of the public or without co-workers.
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Many are lured from poor, rural areas with the promise of good jobs or marriage, but then sold into domestic work, prostitution, or the brick or textile industries.
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She carves niches into her readymade sculptures for little bars of soap, a symbol both of domestic work and the desire to wash from history its congenial veneer.
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Even after excluding prostitution, almost three-fifths of those in forced labour in private enterprises are women, mainly because domestic work makes up a plurality of such exploitation.
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But Australia and Canada also filter immigrants to fill jobs and are widely studied models of how rich economies can survive the aging of their domestic work forces.
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For generations, domestic work -- traditionally performed mostly by women of color and immigrants -- has been overlooked and devalued, even in moments when other workers achieved hard-won gains.
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"Domestic workers work in people's homes completely by themselves," she says, adding that the nature of domestic work also makes it difficult for women to access legal protections.
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"I left my kid at home with my husband," she said, emphasizing one of the key points of the demonstration: Domestic work continues to fall disproportionately on women.
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Jamie Woodcock, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, says the sales pitch from Mira is a continuation of Big Tech's interest in on-demand cleaning and domestic work.
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"If you do sex work, you usually will get paid more than what you are paid in domestic work, and you don't necessarily have to live there," she said.
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The report found that 43 percent of working-age women were confined to domestic work – and those who do work outside the home often face exploitation and low pay.
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When working on traditionally feminine domestic work like cooking, fathers emphasized that they were not only cooking but "hacking the kitchen," imbuing daily tasks with more masculine entrepreneurial language.
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"They tend to be found in domestic work, hospitality, agriculture, construction and sadly include a number of women trafficked from Asia for sex work," he added in a statement.
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Lisao's death was among a series of high profile migrant abuse cases in Malaysia, which relies heavily on foreign workers in sectors from manufacturing to plantations and domestic work.
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But many are stuck in limited roles in the workplace, unable to advance in part because of rigid gender expectations that shoulder them with most of the domestic work.
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Many more women over 25 are in the work force than those under, and women over 25 also do about twice as much unpaid domestic work as their younger counterparts.
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Domestic work, which does not require higher education, is widely seen as an accessible job for working-class Filipinas that pays substantially more abroad than the same job at home.
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Hundreds of thousands of Indonesian women go to Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan every year for domestic work, despite reports of widespread abuses and near slave-like living conditions.
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We still don't have universal paid leave or child care, nor family-friendly workplaces, economic support for mothers without jobs, or partners who do their fair share of domestic work.
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Japan ranks near the bottom on the World Economic Forum's global gender gap index, with a huge disparity in earnings, parliamentary seats, and unpaid domestic work between men and women.
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They spoke to Broadly about how they came to the US from the Philippines, their experiences with abusive domestic work, and how they escaped their abusive situations to become organizers.
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The main such visa program, H-1B, was intended to bring in talented foreigners with special skills who would complement the domestic work force and strengthen the United States economy.
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The Oxford researchers analyzed 50 years worth of time use data from 19 countries in order to infer broad trends about how men's attitudes towards domestic work have evolved over time.
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Many are from poor rural areas and are lured with the promise of good jobs, but end up sold into domestic work, prostitution, or to brick kilns, textile units and farms.
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Like caring and domestic work, prostitution is a form of "women's work" which involves us asking for money for something which, under capitalism and patriarchy, we're expected to give for free.
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Your husband hasn't taken on his share of the domestic work because it's acceptable to him that you do most of it, likely because he's internalized the same messages you have.
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Policies are needed that allow more mothers to stay in employment, such as maternity and parental leave, and policies to trigger equal sharing of unpaid care and domestic work within families.
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But the entertainment industry is just one of many where sexual harassment and assault remain major problems — and workers in low-wage industries, like farming and domestic work, are especially vulnerable.
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Domestic work is not considered as productive and is neglected in policy, leaving the women at a severe disadvantage, said the report by the Centre for Equity Studies in New Delhi.
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University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers explains how GDP doesn't take into account things like the distribution of wealth, crime, domestic work that isn't paid for, or environmental consequences, among other things.
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Globally, women are paid 24 cents less than men on average for the same work, it said, and they also bear most of the burden of unpaid care taking and domestic work.
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The young woman's soft gaze in La platería, Panamá (The silversmith, Panama), 1982, is from Eleta's series titled Servitude where she documents various subjects in their daily domestic work serving wealthy families.
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Despite the country's economic advances, women are among the most excluded groups in India, with many stuck in low-paid or unpaid domestic work and with limited access to their own money.
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At job agencies in the center of Cusco - where teenagers go during the school holidays to look for work - the walls are lined with adverts ranging from kitchen help to domestic work.
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In a place like Ruqban, where men—if they are present at all—are typically preoccupied with safety-related tasks, women face a near-endless gauntlet of domestic work in medieval conditions.
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The numbers are representative of a societal construct that gives white women work-life-balance and expects them to "have it all" while outsourcing childcare and domestic work to marginalized women of color.
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Malaysia, which is Southeast Asia's third-largest economy, relies heavily on foreign workers especially in construction, plantation and domestic work, but human rights campaigners have long voiced concerns that they face widespread abuses.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - All underage marriage should be considered a form of child labor as young brides face abuse and are made to perform domestic work, a campaigner said on Wednesday.
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While many impressive efforts are being taken by the Indian Government to address vulnerability, survey data suggest that domestic work, construction, farming, fishing, manual labor and the sex industry remain sectors of concern.
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In Lebanon, domestic work is handled by the kafala, a sponsorship system common across the Arab world in which the worker is not allowed to change jobs without the permission of her employer.
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Many come from poor rural regions and are lured with the promise of good jobs or marriage but end up sold into domestic work, or toiling in brick kilns, textile units or prostitution.
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Many are from poor rural regions and are lured with the promise good jobs or marriage, but end up sold into domestic work, prostitution, or industries such as brick kilns or textile units.
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She says women in Japan tend to do most of the domestic work on their own and men feel too uncomfortable joining in because they were never taught how to help their wives.
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We know foreign assistance doesn't take away resources from our domestic work; in fact, American faith-based organizations (FBOs) leverage public funds $6 for every government $1, investing over $6.6 billion in international assistance.
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That leaves them with two options, try to find domestic work in South Africa, or find someone to take care of them," she said "Obviously the boys their age can't afford to do that.
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As well as high fuel taxes, Indian airlines are hit by a goods and services tax on maintenance operations that makes domestic work uncompetitive, consulting firm CAPA India said in a report on Monday.
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Mexico is a known origin, transit and destination country for human trafficking, and victims range from indigenous women in domestic work under slave-like conditions to men forced to harvest drugs for organized crime.
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President Nicos Anastasiades has ordered an investigation of the police response and, to quell international outcry, plans to meet with diplomats from the home countries of migrants who come to Cyprus for domestic work.
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Yet women married to men — even when they work and earn as much as or more than their husbands — still do more domestic work, and social scientists have found that the duties are gendered.
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The answer, I suspect, is that you and she are operating in an economy in which people doing the kind of domestic work she does often don't get overtime, even when they're entitled to it.
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Yet the reality is that art and domestic work are both likely to go uncompensated or poorly compensated, and under such circumstances, both have to be approached with love and rigor to be done well.
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Forrest said India, while it had the highest number of slaves, deserved credit for starting to address this although surveys suggested domestic work, construction, farming, manual labor and the sex industry were still sectors of concern.
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As we support survivors, we cannot forget that abuse also thrives in low-wage sectors like domestic work, a fast-growing field that will take up a growing share of the workforce as our population ages.
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Many women in these socialist systems endured the double burden of domestic work and mandatory employment, and so even if you're right about better sex, what does it matter against the broader backdrop of political oppression?
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Widely hailed as "one of the best films of the year," Roma forces us to reexamine the world inside our homes, held together by the strength of women, especially the role of care and domestic work.
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Needless to say, life as a new parent wasn't so obliging — even if she and her husband, Tom, a journalist himself, could easily afford to outsource most of the domestic work in Beijing, where they lived.
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But there are few fixed hours or norms in domestic work, and a caregiver can perform a multitude of tasks since the way that people run their households or realize their daily rituals is personal and particular.
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Feminists have long theorized that women tend to perform a double — and even triple — shift of paid labour, domestic work and the emotional work of supporting their (male) partners, an idea that this study seems to support.
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What's more, the Times story described Weiner as doing a lot of the domestic work and child care — picking up Abedin's dry cleaning, taking their son to the park during the day — while she was at work.
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One nun said she knew of fellow sisters who had PhDs in subjects such as theology and had been, with no explanation, ordered to do domestic work or other chores that had "no relationship to their intellectual formation".
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The Economic Policy Institute estimates that in 2012, there were nearly two million workers working in in-home occupations, although this is likely to be a substantial undercount because so much domestic work is paid under the table.
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"Passing this Bill of Rights will demonstrate that domestic work is not only work, but work that is critical to our economy and society," wrote Harris, Jayapal, and Ai-Jen Poo in a November op-ed for CNN.
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Yang's campaign said a non-means-tested UBI program would help solve economic inequality by giving workers a financial safety net, bolster innovation, and pay people for household domestic work, like childcare, which isn't compensated in the formal economy.
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When the first major labor laws were passed, in the nineteen-thirties, Southern lawmakers fought to exclude domestic work, a largely black profession, an omission that allowed states to maintain racial hierarchies and a cheap pool of black labor.
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A study she conducted in the Thames Valley in southeast England found most offenders in 2016 were aged 30 to 60 who exploited vulnerable family members or acquaintances in domestic work, sex work, forced labor and to commit drug related crimes.
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Its broad range of conditions collides with a lack of industry regulations, so the risk of exploitation is real in domestic work—especially because it has been purposely excluded from various federal labor laws meant to protect workers from abuse.
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By keeping her mouth shut about the sexual abuse for a few months, Barrett was able to secure fill-in domestic work through the agency, which was enough to keep her afloat until she found a job with regular hours.
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Our laws have been painfully insufficient, and it's time to create a new generation of protections that both address historic exclusions, and account for the millions of survivors who fall through the cracks working in "nontraditional" settings like domestic work.
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And it says something about how popular culture at the time created a space for women to laugh at the absurdity of family life and start conversations about women who disliked — or entirely ignored — aspects of parenting and domestic work.
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Conducted by the Australian National University, the study found that thanks to the time many women spend on domestic work, our "healthy work-hours limit" at our jobs is only 34 hours a week compared to mens' 47 hours, reported Broadly.
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Many of us are minority or immigrant women, and many work for less than minimum wage — either because domestic work is not covered by the federal labor laws or because domestic workers are also excluded from state protections and benefits.
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" Though Gerson adds that much of the job insecurity in childcare work is being experienced in other fields as a symptom of our economy, this instability "is something that has historically been a problem for domestic work in someone's home.
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Poverty is the main problem with girls routinely pushed into domestic work in a country where one in five survives on less than $1.25 a day, said Ananda Paudel of development charity VSO, which is behind the Sisters for Sister project.
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U.S. lawmakers will introduce legislation in Congress next year that would close legal loopholes excluding domestic workers from some federal labor and civil rights laws, create new benefits and protections for them, and encourage innovations to address the unique challenges of domestic work.
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"Passing this Bill of Rights will demonstrate that domestic work is not only work, but work that is critical to our economy and society," wrote Harris, Jayapal, and National Domestic Workers Alliance director Ai-Jen Poo in a November op-ed for CNN.
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Fields dominated by women, such as nursing, hospitality and domestic work, often come with their own risks -- including isolation or work in intimate settings, which leaves women open to experiencing harassment from patients, clients, and managers who are more likely to be men.
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"We face the real challenge to destigmatize domestic work, which will be difficult considering how classist we are as a society," said Tania Turner, a program officer at Semillas, a nonprofit that provides grants and technical assistance to local women's rights groups.
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The imbalance of wealth between men and women is at least partially due to the unpaid care work (taking care of children, elders and the ill) and domestic work (cooking cleaning washing, mending, fetching water and firewood) that women are often responsible for.
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They claim thousands of people - largely poor, rural women and children - are lured to India's towns and cities each year by traffickers who promise good jobs but sell them into domestic work or sex work or to industries such as textile workshops.
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Research has found that woman-dominated industries (like child care work or domestic work) tend to pay less, male-dominated industries tend to start paying less once women enter them, and woman-dominated industries tend to start paying more once men enter them.
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This is despite the fact that the collection includes poems that span well over a decade, three presidential administrations, and countless national atrocities, as the collection includes poems from four previous books (Domestic Work, 2000; Bellocq's Ophelia, 2002; Native Guard, 2006; and Thrall, 2012).
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Judging from the way they presented the sounds—in interviews and in their music videos—it was a statement, among other things, about the role that domestic work plays in a long-term partnership, parsing meaning and crafting narratives from rumbling metal and swishing water.
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The issue of unpaid work done by women at home was also highlighted in Melinda Gates' recent annual letter to the Gates Foundation, where she pointed out that women did most of the unpaid domestic work across the world, especially so in poor countries.
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Poo, who also spoke at the event, said it was important to show that women in Hollywood were in the fight together with women in domestic work, on farms and in small businesses in fighting to be free of abuse and harassment at work.
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Known as AB 5 (the "AB" is for "Assembly Bill"), the law would create a test for classifying independent contractors, making it more difficult for gig economy giants and other low wage industries—such as domestic work, trucking, and construction—to exploit the contractor loophole.
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Belquis Ahmadi, a pioneer of masculinity research in Afghanistan who works at the United States Institute of Peace, told me that some Afghan women viciously ridicule men in their household who attempt to help with domestic work or who act more sensitively towards their wives.
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" The latter includes tasks generally associated — at least in the private sphere — with women and domestic work: "keep the dust off the pure individual creation; preserve the new; sustain the change; protect progress; defend and prolong the advance; renew the excitement; repeat the flight.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women are among the most excluded groups in India, with almost 43 percent of working-age women confined to domestic work, while many who do work outside the home face exploitation and low pay, according to the India Exclusion Report.
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Women's unpaid labor may contribute to their stress and feelings of lack of supportOne reason women may report more stress and less support than men is that women do nearly three times as much unpaid domestic work as men, according to a UN report.
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In contrast, Eliza has the opportunity and means to do the kind of domestic work that she loves and is good at, but she lives in a world where this kind of work is not valued, because it's considered less important than the political work Hamilton does.
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Two 16mm shorts, for example — Janie's Janie (1971) by Geri Ashur and Joyce at 343 (1972) by Joyce Chopra and Claudia Weill — are more straightforward, more narrowly glimpsed accounts of women trying to preserve balance and sanity amid the pressures and the social seclusion of domestic work.
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Films by the Italian feminist group Colletivo Femminista di Cinema-Roma, which Adamson analyzes, took as their motto Carol Hanisch's assertion that "the personal is political" — suggesting that no revolution could take place as long as domestic work wasn't seen as labor, and reproductive rights weren't addressed.
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It's also an attempt to gain economic security for one of the fastest-growing and lowest-paid labor sectors in the US. Only one industry is expected to grow faster and add more jobs to the US economy than domestic work in the coming years: the renewable energy business.
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The Thomson Reuters Foundation released its results Tuesday of a survey of 550 experts on women's issues, finding India to be the most dangerous nation for sexual violence against women, as well as human trafficking for domestic work, forced labor, forced marriage and sexual slavery, among other reasons.
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Ms. Robinson said that even as she took on new job titles throughout her 11 years at the company, eventually becoming vice president of production and finance, Mr. De Niro required that she do domestic work, such as vacuuming the floors and setting the table in his private home.
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The most recent World Economic Forum's annual Global Gender Gap Report found women in Japan spend four times more time than men doing unpaid labor like domestic work and household management -- time, effort, and resources that are diverted away from their participation in the workforce or in politics.
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It's also an attempt to gain economic security for one of the fastest-growing and lowest paid occupations in the US. Only one industry is expected to grow faster and add more jobs to the US economy than domestic work in the coming years: the renewable energy business.
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Regardless of the origins of the myth, one fact remains eerily, spookily true: that in history, the domestic work of women has often been devalued and erased by men who came to dominate the industries that were built on those skills, especially any skill that was important in the kitchen.
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And like a lot of service work done primarily by women, including child care or domestic work, stripping isn't seen as career work worthy of full benefits; rather, it's stereotyped as a temporary service job done by women who have "real" 9-to-5 jobs, or who are "really" full-time parents or students.
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That said, we know there are myriad structural and cultural issues that prevent women from rising up the ranks—from women being unfairly burdened by domestic work, to their apparently destructive lack of self-confidence, to the fact that women simply aren't believed to be as competent as men, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
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By interviewing fathers and using big data analysis, my co-author and I found that fathers seek information and support online, use more anonymous social media sites like Reddit to discuss sensitive issues such as divorce and child custody conflicts, and blog about do-it-yourself projects as a way of legitimizing their childcare and domestic work as masculine labor.
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And for millennials, that domestic work is now supposed to check a never-ending number of aspirational boxes: Outings should be "experiences," food should be healthy and homemade and fun, bodies should be sculpted, wrinkles should be minimized, clothes should be cute and fashionable, sleep should be regulated, relationships should be healthy, the news should be read and processed, kids should be given personal attention and thriving.
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The progress of women in the workplace has no doubt come a long way, but there are still so many hurdles for women all around the world: from pay parity; to creating good, high-paying jobs for women; to equity at home with regards to unpaid domestic work; to initiatives that would ensure talented women can reach the highest levels of business and public office.
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We're in China, we're growing in China, and we see real opportunities both for Chinese domestic work, now that we've got license to practice in Chinese law, which was a, sort of, big breakthrough for us, but also outbound work from Chinese companies, and you heard the vision yesterday from President Xi himself, so we're really excited about not just China, but Asia in general.
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The world has the means to make that future the reverse of what prevails today: 41,000 girls are married off every day, mainly because they are not seen as potential wage earners; women spend three times as many hours as men each day in unpaid care and domestic work; and women comprise almost 40 percent of the workforce but hold only 27 percent of managerial positions.
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