Unpaid Work By Women Worth 43-Times Apple's Annual Turnover: Oxfam
Rimjhim Jain
An Oxfam report released before the start of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos says unpaid work done by women across the globe amounts to a staggering $10 trillion a year, which is 43 times the annual turnover of the world's biggest company Apple. In India, the unpaid work done by women looking after their homes and children is worth 3.1 per cent of the country's GDP. Women spend 312 minutes per day in urban areas and 291 minutes per day in rural areas on such unpaid care work, it added...
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· Unpaid work done by women across the globe amounts to a staggering $10 trillion a year, which is 43 times the annual turnover of the world's biggest company Apple.
· In India, the unpaid work done by women looking after their homes and children is worth 3.1 per cent of the country's GDP.
· Women spend 312 minutes per day in urban areas and 291 minutes per day in rural areas on such unpaid care work, it added.
· In comparison, men spend only 29 minutes in urban and 32 minutes in rural areas on unpaid care work.
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