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Reflection 8

                  The "Sticky Floor"  refers to women who occupy low-paying, low-mobility positions such as clerical and administrative assistants, mental health-care and child-care workers, and service and maintenance employees. Women still bear the burden of household chores and caretaking responsibilities, which often either excludes them from pay work or leaves them relegated to ill-paid part-time jobs. While men spend 16 hours doing domestic chores such childcare and household task and women spend more than 26 hours doing the same task. That is just in the UK, but in other countries the  statics are much higher. But  as women in both the UK and Argentina are fighting for these statistics to change, it doesn't seem to make to advance as much as many women would like. They are still stuck in hours of household domestic chores.          Currently the U.K is creating a new path for gender equality.  The UK advertising are putting a banned on commercials or adver