Editing Workforce (section)

==Paid and unpaid==
Paid and [[unpaid work]] are also closely related with formal and informal labour. Some informal work is unpaid, or paid under the table.<ref name="autogenerated2005"/> Unpaid work can be work that is done at home to sustain a family, like child care work, or actual habitual daily labour that is not monetarily rewarded, like working the fields.<ref name="autogenerated4"/>  Unpaid workers have zero [[earnings]], and although their work is valuable, it is hard to estimate its value. Men and women tend to work in different areas of the economy, regardless of whether their work is paid or unpaid. Women focus on the [[service sector]], while men focus on the [[industrial sector]].

===Unpaid work and gender===
Women usually work fewer hours in income generating jobs than men do.<ref name="autogenerated36"/> Often it is [[Homemaking|housework]] that is unpaid. Worldwide, women and girls are responsible for a great amount of household work.<ref name="autogenerated4"/>

The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World, published in 2008, stated that in Madagascar, women spend 20 hours per week on housework, while men spend only two.<ref name="autogenerated4"/> In Mexico, women spend 33 hours and men spend 5 hours.<ref name="autogenerated4"/> In Mongolia the housework hours amount to 27 and 12 for women and men respectively.<ref name="autogenerated4"/> In Spain, women spend 26 hours on housework and men spend 4 hours.<ref name="autogenerated4"/> Only in the Netherlands do men spend 10% more time than women do on activities within the home or for the household.<ref name="autogenerated4"/>

The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World also stated that in developing countries, women and girls spend a significant amount of time fetching water for the week, while men do not. For example, in Malawi women spend 6.3 hours per week fetching water, while men spend 43 minutes. Girls in Malawi spend 3.3 hours per week fetching water, and boys spend 1.1 hours.<ref name="autogenerated4"/> Even if women and men both spend time on household work and other unpaid activities, this work is also gendered.<ref name="autogenerated36"/>

=== Sick leave and gender ===
In the United Kingdom in 2014, two-thirds of workers on long-term [[sick leave]] were women, despite women only constituting half of the workforce, even after excluding maternity leave.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Women make up two thirds of workers on long-term sick leave|last=Watts|first=Joseph|date=11 February 2014|work=[[London Evening Standard]]|page=10}}</ref>