So The Guardian decides to do a big survey on the plight of working women. Second para of the lead piece:
It hasn’t worked out that way. Women’s labour has been bought on the
cheap, their working hours have become longer and their family
commitments have barely diminished.
When you get such a basic fact wrong you’re really not going to manage to come up with any interesting answers. Total working hours for women have fallen in recent decades, as they have been falling for a century (and as they have also been falling for men). Average working hours are (to within a few minutes a day) the same for men and women.
Any analysis which ignores those two observable facts is bound to be wrong.
Aren’t you glad we’ve got such stunningly good investigative journalists bringing us the news?
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