A team working with our video director genius friend Joe Sabia created this video for Glamour, that calculates the difference in total time that men and women spend, on average, on a variety of everyday activities.
At Hellogiggles:
They broke it all down activity by activity, even getting as detailed as comparing shampoo times (an average of 3 minutes per shampoo for a woman and 2 minutes for a man). While some time differences don’t seem substantial, like that shampoo stat, they actually add up quite a bit. For that shampoo example (based on an average of 183 shampoos per year), women spend almost three hours more per year – just on washing their hair. Other, more gender-neutral activities – like brushing your teeth and using mouthwash – are about equal.
But that's just the beginning. Women have to wait longer in restroom lines, Glamour found, and I can think of other day to day activities where there's a bit of a difference by gender.
Glamour's final tally: It takes a woman 24 days, 7 hours and 40 minutes to be a woman. Compare that with 9 days, 5 hours, and 27 minutes for a man.
