Women should be allowed to go home from work early every day because of gender inequality, according to a credulous news report by Vice.
The millennial news site (and alleged recruiting ground for drug smugglers) ran a report suggesting female employees should have a “work limit” of 34 hours a week, while men should be expected to work 47.
The article, run under Vice’s women’s section, Broadly, said that the study confirms “what we already knew” about the working world being unfair to women.
Citing a study by the Australian National University, author Sammi Taylor argued that 13 extra hours off every week would make up for “unpaid labour” women have to do around the house, like cooking and cleaning.
As a consequence, she argues, women are at a permanent disadvantage because male colleagues have more time to devote to their career.
The suggested male “work limit” of 47 hours is equivalent to five days of about nine and a half hours each – or 9am to 6.30pm. That’s long but hardly unusual.
A 34-hour week would mean five days of about 6hours, 45 minutes – aka getting in to the office at 9am and being gone before 4pm.
In its starkest form, this would see the women clock out two and a half hours before their male counterparts – a strange way to achieve the oft-cited goal of workplace equality.
