Women still way behind on pay, career and help: UN report

By Judith Ireland
Updated April 29 2015 - 1:08pm, first published April 27 2015 - 9:06pm
A new UN report has found women across the world are still lagging behind men in their pay and are also doing more housework. Photo: Paul Jones
A new UN report has found women across the world are still lagging behind men in their pay and are also doing more housework. Photo: Paul Jones
A new UN report has found women across the world are still lagging behind men in their pay and are also doing more housework. Photo: Paul Jones
A new UN report has found women across the world are still lagging behind men in their pay and are also doing more housework. Photo: Paul Jones
A new UN report has found women across the world are still lagging behind men in their pay and are also doing more housework. Photo: Paul Jones
A new UN report has found women across the world are still lagging behind men in their pay and are also doing more housework. Photo: Paul Jones
A new UN report has found women across the world are still lagging behind men in their pay and are also doing more housework. Photo: Paul Jones
A new UN report has found women across the world are still lagging behind men in their pay and are also doing more housework. Photo: Paul Jones

Women worldwide earn only three quarters of what male workers are paid, while they do almost two and half times the amount of housework, a United Nations report has found.

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