The amount of labor done for free highlights earnings lost as well as the gender divide that persists in Japan.
apanese women are missing out on around ¥111 trillion in pay for a range of household tasks they do for free, an amount that’s roughly equivalent to a fifth of the country’s economy.
Kanako Katsumata, a mother of two living in Fujisawa city near Yokohama, is among those who shoulder the bulk of housework and childcare at home. That low figure results in Japan having the fourth largest gap between the genders in the OECD, with the nation’s women working an additional 3 hours for free. Sweden, Denmark and Norway have the narrowest gaps, with the time disparity in all three less than an hour.
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