Sorry, and full-time to part-time.... Seventy percent of Canada's part-time workforce is female. They make choices that they don't take full-time jobs because of core housework related to food and shelter. So this is meal preparation, cleanup, indoor cleaning, and laundry--not lawn cutting and not reading to my daughter at night. It's still mostly done by women. The hours do matter; they really do. They affect their choices in jobs, and that affects their economic independence.
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