Case study: Unpaid Labour in Australia
Problem
Unpaid labor includes essential tasks like:
- housework
- caregiving
- volunteering
These tasks sustains households and communities but are often unrecognized. Women disproportionately bear the burden of unpaid labor, limiting their participation in the paid workforce and contributing to gender inequality. This imbalance affects women’s economic security and career opportunities, while the value of unpaid work remains largely invisible in traditional economic measures. Recognizing and addressing unpaid labor is key to achieving gender equity and a more inclusive economy.
Data source
We are using data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics from the 2021 Census
Aims
Here we are compiling data that are across several excel spreadsheets and putting them into one tidy, long table format