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If housework was paid, it would be worth £700bn to the UK economy, suggests a new report.

The comprehensive survey of how we spend our leisure time indicates that if unpaid household chores were treated like other work, it would be valued at more than three-quarters of the paid economy.

VILLAGE magazine, Ireland's Current Affairs Weekly, 2-8 September 2005 by Maggie Ronayne for the Global Women’s Strike, Ireland