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A recent study shows that an unequal share of household chores is still the norm in many households, despite the fact that many more women now have jobs. In a survey of 1,256 people ages between 18 and 65, men said they contributed an average of 37% of the total housework, while the women estimated their share to be nearly double that, at 70%. This ratio was not affected by whether the woman was working or not.

When they were asked what they thought was a fair division of labour, women with jobs felt that housework should be shared equally between male and female partners. Women who did not work outside the home were satisfied to perform 80% - the majority of the household work - if their husbands did remainder. Research has shown that, if levels increase beyond these percentages, women become unhappy and anxious, and feel they are unimportant.

After marriage, a woman is reported to increase her household workload by 14 hours per week, but for men the amount is just 90 minutes. So the division of labour becomes unbalanced, as a man's share increases much less than the woman's. It is the inequality and loss of respect, not the actual number of hours, which leads to anxiety and depression. The research describes housework as thankless and unfulfilling. Activities included in the study were cooking, cleaning, shopping, doing laundry, washing up and childcare. Women who have jobs report that they feel overworked by these chores in addition to their professional duties. In contrast, full-time homemakers frequently anticipate going back to work when the children grow up. Distress for this group is caused by losing the teamwork in the marriage.

All activities mentioned in the passage are household chores EXCEPT_______

Where smart cities were once regarded purely as a vision of the future, they are now becoming a reality in numerous urban centres across the globe. From Dubai, Singapore, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Madrid to Southampton in the UK, we’re already beginning to see smart cities provide inhabitants with improved living conditions, easier mobility and cleaner, safer environments, by using cloud computing to power services. But as with all public sector initiatives, smart city services need to be delivered as cost effectively as possible to minimise the taxpayer burden. Often, key decision makers are met with obstacles when it comes to deploying smart services, preventing smart cities initiatives from reaching their full potential – or worse, blocking them altogether.

Central to the functioning of most ‘normal’ city ecosystems is the underlying data they run on. Regardless as to whether that data is stored on local servers or using cloud storage, when that data is fragmented or incomplete, identifying emerging trends for strategic planning and cost reduction becomes extremely difficult – and because of this, authorities have to adopt an entirely reactive approach. Conversely, in a smart city environment, connected sensors forming an Internet of Things (IoT) provide valuable data for analysis and, in turn, insight into the specific city’s behavioural trends. With this level of information, services can be optimised to reduce costs and risk, increase urban flows and manage assets. Importantly, they can also provide real-time connections and interactions between the city’s businesses, local governments, service providers and citizens.

In this way, operations and services are elevated through the integration and connection of physical devices via IoT networks, ultimately transforming how a city runs.

(Source: https://www.techradar.com/)

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Livestreaming to sell products proved its effectiveness in a campaign to sell lychees in Bắc Giang, a northern province of Vietnam. During the 4th wave of COVID-19 in Vietnam, this province took a flexible approach to boost its lychee sales while at the same time being the epicenter of the pandemic. In early June 2021, Sendo, an e-commerce platform, live-streamed two Bắc Giang farmers who led more than 30,000 viewers on a virtual tour of their lychee orchards and succeeded in selling 8 tons of fresh lychees in a short period. Before that, the Vosco e-commerce platform also assisted farmers in selling agricultural products by utilizing live streaming. Vosco sent their teams to guide farmers on how to take photos of the products, write marketing content, live stream, and sell them on the Vosco platform. Livestreaming has emerged as a new direction for Vietnamese farmers. Thanks to this new sales channel, Vietnamese farmers can control the output of their agricultural products, and the country could potentially have a new billion-dollar industry. However, turning livestreaming into an economic industry requires a lot of work. Firstly, Vietnam needs professional streamers who know how to combine entertainment and sales. It also needs platforms that can support millions of visitors at once and software specifically designed to facilitate interactions between streamers and viewers. This is a huge opportunity for Vietnamese technology companies.

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