Work

Women tend to choose occupations that are safer and cleaner than those chosen by men. It is also interesting to note that women tend to avoid occupations where the work is largely unstructured (eg, policing) and where the work tends to involve problem solving (eg, engineering).

Research conducted in the US and Scandanavia showed a 3% work efficiency difference between men and women in favour of men in blue collar industries. This was a small but stastically significant result. A significant difference has been observed in the output of research papers by post graduate students. Professional men work on average significantly longer hours than professional women.

OECD data showed that when paid & unpaid work are added together men and women do virtually the same amount of work, despite feminists always claiming women do more work. Men also tend to have significantly longer commutes than women.

See Also

• Total time spent in work

External Links

• Time spent in paid and unpaid work, by sex (OECD)

Work

Feminists often claim that women did not work until recently. Even brief examination of the historical record should demonstrate that this was not feasible. Societies were not wealthy enough to have many people not-working until recently. Until the 19th century famine was an ever present threat even in Western society.

Assuming our species has been around for around 100,000 years, we have spent 90-100% of our time on this planet as hunter-gatherers (depending on region) and much of the rest of the time engaging in some form of agriculture. The concept of a house wife arose rather recently and represented women who did not have to engage in back-breaking agricultural or factory labour alongside their menfolk. The menfolk meanwhile kept at the back-breaking labour. Women have worked outside of the home in some form or other for most of human history. Originally they gathered and sometimes hunted, then they worked the land alongside men and children. Later a lot of them worked in factories, alongside men and children. Then eventually a few of them got to stay home while the men went out, mainly due to rising standards of living. Eventually this became common in some countries - we call them rich countries. Later the myth of the poor unfulfilled stay at home mother was born and the knowledge that this was in fact an historically privileged position was largely forgotten.