Chelsea Clinton launches first report on world’s fathers

United Nations: New mother Chelsea Clinton helped launch the first report on the “State of the World’s Fathers” which says major inequalities persist between parents with women spending between two and 10 times longer than men caring for children.

 

The report said there is no country in the world where men and boys share unpaid domestic and child care work equally with women and girls despite the fact that women today comprise 40 per cent of the global workforce and 50 per cent of the world's food producers.

 

Clinton, vice chair of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation which helped support the report, told a UN event launching it that changes in mindsets, policies and practices are needed to get fathers to play a bigger role. “I hadn’t understood that one of the great joys of becoming a mother would be watching my husband become a father,” Chelsea said.