Women are not afraid of hard graft
Renfrewshire ladies among the nation’s hardest working
Women in Renfrewshire are among the hardest working in the country when it comes to putting in the hours, new findings reveal.
Whether they are mums, daughters, housewives, grannies or sisters, the fairer sex in the area racks up a working week of 35 hours – almost the same as the average of 37.5 hours clocked in by their menfolk.
And these are hours worked outside the home – so they don’t take into account household tasks or family commitments such as childcare, cooking and shopping.
But incredibly the average number of paid hours across Scotland shows a marked difference the further north you go from Paisley.
As women in the Orkney Islands work more than 12 hours fewer a week than their men on average, with women doing 25 hours compared to the men working 37.5 per week.
While women in the Shetland Islands are doing 11.9 fewer hours a week, equal to 26.6 hours compared to 38.5 worked by the men.
Moray women, also in the north, are benefiting from the third biggest gap in grafting where the female sex performed 27.8 hours, 10.9 fewer than their blokes.
Eilean Siar (formerly the Western Isles) comes in next where in 2016 women worked 10.3 fewer hours, equivalent to 27.2 hours against 37.5 for their men.
The Highland local authority area also witnesses a big gap where women clock in nine fewer hours, 30 hours compared the blokes who are putting in 39 hours a week.
Bizarrely women in Renfrewshire, and the neighbouring council areas of East Renfrewshire and Glasgow, all have women working an average of 35 hours, which is approximately seven per cent less than their menfolk.
And females in Edinburgh and Stirling are also working just as hard as their sisters in our area, also averaging 35 hours of paid employment.
And the average hour gap across Scotland reveals women are doing 34.5 hours compared to 37.5 hours, which is eight per cent less than men.
But spare a thought for women living in Kensington and Chelsea, London, where hard-working women did more hours than their men, each doing an average of 37 hours per week, compared to only 35 hours for men.