bulk of unpaid work.

Efforts have been made to document the effects of this double burden on couples placed in such situations. Many studies have traced the effects of the gendered division of labor, and in most cases there was a notable difference between the time men and women contribute to unpaid labor.

Unequal work burdens around the world

In the industrialized world

Pre-World War II

The traditional female homemaker-male breadwinner model characterized female

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