Jan. 25, 2024 "Women are picking up the slack as men cut back working hours in U.K.": Today I found this article by Philip Aldrick on the Financial Post:
British men are working shorter hours on average than they did 25 years ago with women picking up the slack, new analysis from the Office for National Statistics reveals.
Since 1998, average weekly hours worked by men has fallen from 38.6 to 35.3
while women have increased their hours from 26.5 to 27.9.
A third of the increase in female hours came after the pandemic, a trend that was “perhaps an indication of greater flexibility in working arrangements,” the ONS said.
Overall, average weekly hours for all those in employment in the U.K. dropped from 33.1 in 1998 to 31.8 in 2022. The decline was driven by men in full-time jobs working less and women and older workers accounting for a larger share of today’s labour force.
Although men in full-time jobs still work longer hours than women on average, the gap is closing.
In 2022, full-time male staff worked on average 1.2 hours less per week than in 1998 and 0.5 hours less than 2019.
Women working full-time reduced their average weekly hours fell by just 0.1 between 1998 and 2022, all of which came after 2019.
Overall, Britons are working on 0.3 fewer hours a week than before the pandemic. The drop helps explain the staff shortages that have hammered employers and driven up pay.
The post-COVID-19 reduction in hours is equivalent to roughly 310,000 fewer people in employment, the ONS said. “This drop in average weekly hours is significant in terms of its quantitative impact on labour supply.”
It also comes on top of a decline in total workers over the pandemic. Official data shows there were 25,000 fewer people in work the three months to November 2023 than in the three months to February 2020, just before COVID hit.
The employment data may not be reliable, however, as response rates to the ONS’s key Labour Force Survey have collapsed. It is using experimental data until the problem is fixed.
Women have always worked more than men because we work full time and birth and nurse all of humanity.
Nature is seeing that men are becoming almost superfluous in the traditional sense and we can see the early, subtle changes of men becoming emasculated.
We do not need barefoot hunters anymore as all of our work becomes less labour intensive.
Men are becoming smaller and only 40% of males are able to move their DNA forward as compared to 87% of females.
Females still select the mates they want to procreate with and many more women are going to donor clinics in search of the fittest male and eschewing male interference in creating their families.
Mar. 8, 2024 "Arianna Huffington says 'culture ceiling' needs to be addressed": Today I found this article by BNN Bloomberg:
On International Women’s Day, Arianna Huffington says many businesses have a “culture ceiling” that needs to be addressed.
In an interview with BNN Bloomberg on Friday, Huffington, the co-founder of The Huffington Post and founder and CEO Thrive Global, said that Thrive Global works with companies on issues of employee well-being.
She said focusing on wellbeing “needs to be seen as a productivity multiplier” and is “incredibly important to allow women to advance.”
“What stands out to me is that we need to pay more attention to the cultures in companies that make it harder for women to stay and advance because we have a lot of scientific data that shows that women respond to toxic stress and burnout differently than men,” Huffington said.
“So in a sense, we have a culture ceiling that we need to look at.”
Huffington also highlighted that flexible work options have been “great for women.”
“We see more women participation in the workforce and that has a lot to do with the flexibility, that's available to them now because of remote and hybrid work,” she said.
“The key is not so much where we work, but how flexible are our employers. That's what women need to navigate their lives.”
Huffington also noted that she feels the conversation around flexible working arrangements has been “settled.”
“I think there are very few employers now who expect employees to be at work nine to five, five days a week. Flexibility has been more integrated into the expectations employers have,” she said.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/arianna-huffington-says-culture-ceiling-needs-to-be-addressed-1.2044464
