Women's work

It is most commonly used in reference to the unpaid labor typically performed by that of a mother or wife to upkeep the home and children.

"Women's work" may also refer to roles in raising children, particularly within the home: diaper changing and related hygiene, toilet training, bathing, clothing, feeding, monitoring, and education with regard to personal care.

Women's work may also refer to professions that include childcare such as governess, nanny, day care worker, au pair, or professional positions such as teacher (especially teaching children) and nurse.

Though much of "women's work" is indoors, some is outdoors, such as fetching water, grocery shopping or food foraging, and gardening.

Related concepts include gender role, wage labour and employment, female workforce, and women's rights (cf.

The term micropower refers to having greater power in the home; which means that it is easier for men to avoid house work and care labor.

[8] In places where water needs to be collected and transported by hand and brought back to the household, women are found to do a large percentage of this chore.

[9] For example, In Sub-Saharan Africa, women make up 62% of the number of people who are responsible for water collection and transportation.

[9] The gender distribution of water collection and transportation greater impacts women and girls by contributing to "Time Poverty".

[13] However, the number of women who choose to further their studies in science or math in post secondary school drops significantly.

[13] A contributing factor to this is the implicit bias that science and math fields are typically seen as "male", while arts and humanities are more often seen as "female".