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Social media in Australia has been alight with this very awkward and inappropriate Family Feud moment: contestants were asked to “Name something people think is a woman’s job” and then subsequently, “Name something people think is a man’s job.” At a time when, at least here in the US, the dialogue is about, “How can we get more women and girls interested in science, technology, engineering, and math careers?” and “How can we get more women in leadership positions in companies?” this kind of blatant misogyny is shocking.

Interestingly, Australia shares many of the interesting paradoxes that the US faces in the gender labor gap. From a report by the Australian government in February of 2014, women outnumbered men in terms of higher education but fell behind when it came to economic security and leadership positions. Nearly 40% of women aged 25-29 in Australia held a BA degree or more, as compared to about 30% of men. However, women working full-time earn about 18% less than men and women with graduate degrees make about 10% less than their male counterparts. Concurrently, you’ll find that women also are not found in many leadership positions in Australian companies. Women hold only about 3% of chair and CEO positions in the ASX (Australian Securities Exchange) 200 and ASX 500 and women constitute less than 10% of directors in the ASX 500.

What is particularly shocking is that no one in the office at Family Feud picked up on this before putting it on television. This is a family show after all; little girls and boys were watching the show with their parents and learned from TV what are the perceived jobs for them. What is also scary is that, in 2014 in Australia, 100 random people polled will list the following as top eight most common jobs for women (number in parenthesis indicates number of people who answered this choice):

Cooking (28) Cleaning (17) Nursing (13) Hairdressing (7) Domestic Duties (5) Dishes (4) Receptionist (4) Washing Clothes (3)

And obviously we have no data on the sample of 100 Australians that were polled (What percentage were male vs. female? What were their ages? What city/town/region are they from? etc.), but we can at least appreciate Family Feud for shedding some light on the serious gender barriers women still face in the “developed” world. Nearly 30% of people polled felt that cooking was “something people think is a woman’s job” (an artful way of saying, “What are some stereotypical jobs for women?”). Only a quarter of people polled felt that a “job” for women was one that would be paid– 75% still felt that women’s jobs should be marginal work that often goes unpaid, such as cooking, cleaning, doing the dishes, etc.

This simple poll brings to light that unpaid labor is often relegated to women– and not just in Australia, but globally. An OECD study found that in all countries, the number of hours women worked unpaid per day outstripped men:

Averaging all countries together, women spent twice as much time as men doing unpaid work each day. Interestingly, the same study showed that in Australia, while both mothers and fathers each dedicated the most amount of time to child care out of any other country’s parents, working mothers still logged more childcare minutes than non-working fathers. A recent study in India found that over 60% of adult women primarily engage in housework and that the percent of women engaged in only housework (in both rural and urban homes) has risen to over 40% in the last decade. According to the BBC Women’s Hour, British women are still accountable for nearly twice as many household chores as men. In the “Global South,” there has been a movement to have women’s unpaid labor be recognized (read more about it in this great Huffington Post article).

Likewise, Family Feud also asked people to stereotype of about men’s jobs, finding the following results:

Building (18) Mowing the Lawn (17) Bins (10) Mechanic (8) Tradie (7) Fixing Things (5) Carpentry (5) Plumbing (4)

These stereotypes also hurt boys and men, relegating certain jobs as “not being manly enough” while other jobs are more suitable for men (particularly those that require physical labor).

Family Feud Australia has since apologized for the questions, but the action cannot be reversed– and the shockingly sexist results of their poll will float around the internet forever. The events bring to light that sexism is still greatly prevalent throughout the globe and that gender bias in the labor market is still very strong. This simple poll has shown us that more needs to be done to close the gender divide, both in the kinds of jobs that we relegate to different sexes as well as the unpaid labor market. Sexism, sadly, is far from over.

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