Women Need Workplace Boundaries — Not Remote Work or Flexibility

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/opinion/women-work-force-flexibility-shifts.html

“Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed’s working hours.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Today in Labor History July 3, 1835: 2000 children, mostly Irish and female, went on strike at the silk mills of Paterson, N.J., for an 11-hour day and 6-day week. They were currently being forced to work 13 hours per day Monday through Saturday, and were regularly fined for minor disciplinary infractions. Solidarity by workers in neighboring cities, including financial support from New York and Newark, helped sustain the strike for two weeks. However, the bosses eventually won the strike, but did offer a compromise of a 69-hour work week. And strike leaders, and their families, were permanently barred from future employment in Paterson.

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Why and where are weekly working hours dropping in Europe?

The amount of time spent at work across Europe is declining.

According to Eurostat, in 2024, the actual weekly working hours for workers aged 20 to 64 in their main job ranged from 32.1 hours in the Netherlands to 39.8 hours in Greece.

When including non-EU countries the highest figure was recorded in Turkey, where average weekly working time exceeded 43 hours.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250613-why-and-where-are-weekly-working-hours-dropping-in-europe?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

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