While I edited this interview, my husband was folding our laundry and my daughter was running around our apartment in one continuous, galloping loop. I mention this because our domestic, egalitarian Sunday illustrates something Melinda Gates, the philanthropist and cofounder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been talking about lately: the gender gap in unpaid labor. It's something she addressed in her 2016 annual letter— the fact that women spend more time on domestic duties than men do in every country in the world.
In developed countries, this gap prevents women from advancing in the workplace (see above: if my husband weren't folding the laundry and watching our kid do laps, I would not be able to fit this work in).

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