Episode 600 • • 2:25:42 - 2:30:49
600: Seven Proxies
Women's Labor Statistics, World Bank, Unpaid Work Debate
The statistic that "women do 66% of the world's work but earn 10% of the income" is traced back to a 1986 World Bank speech by Barbara Conable. The hosts argue that these figures often conflate "work" with normal social and domestic activities like child-rearing and housekeeping. They criticize the "slave culture" mentality of quantifying every human interaction as unpaid labor.