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Women are not on the home stretch yet
Ian Sinclair speaks to SALLY HOWARD about her revealing new book on the topic of ‘women’s work’ in the home — and finds out things are going backwards
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A LONDON-BASED journalist specialising in gender, human rights and social trends, in March Sally Howard published The Home Stretch: Why It’s Time To Come Clean About Who Does The Dishes — a brilliant and inspiring book that attempts to “reboot the stalled domestic revolution.”
Ian Sinclair: Many people may think there is broad equality in Britain in terms of housework today — certainly compared to the past. Can you summarise what the evidence tells us about domestic labour today?
Sally Howard: There’s a common misconception, fuelled by our onus on women’s gains in the public sphere (closing the gender pay gap, for example and equalising women’s representation in politics), that the feminist revolution on the home front has been fully achieved. And yes British males today contribute much more in terms of domestic effort than their 1970s counterparts: 18 hours a week compared to the one hour 20 minute contribution of 1971 man.
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