Over the life course womens caring work seems always much more impressive than mens. If women were the real leaders of the worlds major institutions, we would all find ourselves in akinder gentler place`. (Real leaders are more than the ones we officially “elect”.)
The chart below shows how women beat men handily, when we compare their average daily devotion of time to unpaid helping, social support, and other caring activities.
The bottom two curves are about “parent care”. The curve for men has a downward incline from roughly age 25 to roughly age 45. In that age range the curve for women is sloped upwards.
After age 55, the curve for men has a distinctly more pronounced downward slope than that form women. In that same age range women’s time use in “husband caring” (red curve) is soaring much more impressively than that for men concerning “wife caring” (yellow curve).
For shame you men! (Or is this only in Canada?)
