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Women's Information Center Letter #98 on December 2023

Volunteers issued Women's Information Center Letter #98 on December 1, 2023.

We thought about housework.

 

In today's society, the number of dual-income households is increasing.

When husbands do more housework and cooperate, families become more peaceful and happy.

page 1.

Data on gender differences in housework-related time are as follows:

Citing "National Women's Education Center Gender Equality Statistics Leaflet 2023".

https://www.nwec.go.jp/research/cb4rt20000001kqy-att/statisticsjp2023.pdf

You can compare 2006 and 2021 from "Time spent" in "Item C".

 

page 2.

Changes in housework-related time in dual-income households.

Created from Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications statistics "Today No. 190". (Table 2)

https://www.stat.go.jp/info/today/pdf/190.pdf

 

page 3.

I read "Did you realize that housework is hard?" written by Mari Ako, who is also famous as a life history researcher.

After reading it, I noticed the following:

Housework is an important part of our daily lives, so we must get back to it as a family. Housework and care are often neglected, but no one can survive without them.

 

Pages 4-5.
・His gender challenge faced by high school students:  "Sexual diversity''
nwec forum 2023
Multigenerational World Cafe ver.2: “Gender Diversity”

 

Page 6.
Report on participation in the first summer seminar.
“It’s a waste not to know!
How to look up gender information.”

 

 

 

photo by volunteer