{"id":63057,"date":"2026-02-05T16:23:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/power-observatory.pt\/en\/?p=63057"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:23:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:23:03","slug":"cleaning-cooking-managing-household-shopping-and-childcare-women-remain-overburdened-on-the-domestic-front-compared-to-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/power-observatory.pt\/en\/cleaning-cooking-managing-household-shopping-and-childcare-women-remain-overburdened-on-the-domestic-front-compared-to-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning, cooking, managing household shopping and childcare: women remain overburdened on the domestic front compared to men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1019\" data-end=\"1361\">Despite progress towards gender equality, women continue to carry out the majority of household tasks and childcare responsibilities. Cleaning, cooking, managing household shopping and overseeing daily family life still fall disproportionately on women, highlighting that the division of domestic labour between men and women remains unequal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1363\" data-end=\"1545\">The article was written by Maria Jo\u00e3o Guedes, a professor and coordinator of POWER, whose work focuses on gender inequalities and the unequal distribution of domestic labour.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1547\" data-end=\"1624\">You can read the <em data-start=\"1564\" data-end=\"1573\">P\u00fablico&#8217;s<\/em> article <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publico.pt\/2026\/02\/04\/sociedade\/noticia\/arrumar-cozinhar-cuidar-compras-filhos-mulheres-continuam-sobrecarregadas-frente-domestica-face-homens-2163544#\">here<\/a><\/strong> and the full study <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iseg.ulisboa.pt\/genero-trabalho-poder\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2026\/01\/DataSheet_TrabalhoeLazer_Jan2026.pdf\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1587\" data-end=\"1590\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite progress towards gender equality, women continue to carry out the majority of household tasks and childcare responsibilities. Cleaning, cooking, managing household shopping and overseeing daily family life still fall disproportionately on women, highlighting that the division of domestic labour between men and women remains unequal. The article was written by Maria Jo\u00e3o Guedes, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":63058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/power-observatory.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/power-observatory.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/power-observatory.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/power-observatory.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/power-observatory.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/power-observatory.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63059,"href":"https:\/\/power-observatory.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63057\/revisions\/63059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/power-observatory.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/power-observatory.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/power-observatory.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/power-observatory.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}