Gender Roles Affecting Women's Paid Domestic Work

In today’s world, people think that all women and men workers around the world are being payed equally, but as some people know, that is not a case. Most of the time when people think about work, they think about paid work. However, some women around the world, they usually work as domestic workers. Domestic work is part of nonstandard work. It is people who works as an employee in companies, stores or other people’s house and get paid for a specific period of time. The reason women take this domestic work as a job because they have to take care of the family during earning money, such as take care of their child and make a meal for the family. Even though, most of women are not getting paid enough or not paid at all after what they have worked …show more content…
Current days women are working as long as men does, but after their paid labor is over they return to their home and do the unpaid domestic labor. Doing both unpaid and paid labor is called double burden. However, unpaid domestic work can bring impact on paid job, it can cause female workers to lose their chance of assignments and promotions, which is especially important for their careers. Also, in society many other co-worker think that female worker will spend less passion on their work and behave negatively to husband to pass the responsibility of domestic work (Stastna, 2012). Furthermore, unpaid domestic work is one of problem that limit the women’s involvement of economic society (International Women's Development Agency & State, Society & Governance in Melanesia, n.d.). As reported by International Women's Development Agency & State and Society & Governance in Melanesia “Economic insecurity has increasingly led to female economic participation being seen as advantageous, which has increased women’s participation in previously male dominated roles. However, this has not led to an equal reallocation of labour within the household. Men are not taking on greater responsibility for domestic work and unpaid care at the same rate at which women are increasing their economic participation, (International Women's Development Agency & State, Society & Governance in Melanesia, n.d.).” This means that even though, there was increase of women’s involvement in economic society. Male are lack of responsibility and not equally distribute the unpaid domestic work with female. If male employees continues to put less responsibility on unpaid domestic. It will limit the participation of female’s workforce by making them to concentrate on their unpaid domestic work. Therefore, it would better if husband or father distribute their time on unpaid domestic work so he could solve the conflict with his