New Delhi: Last month, Infosys chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy insisted that Indian youngsters must work a 70-hour week. “I used to be in the office at 6.20 a.m. and leave office at 8.30 p.m. and worked six days a week…I know every nation that became prosperous did so through hard work,” he added. That’s the only way to escape the ‘cycle of poverty’, he said. Most Indian working women work a 70-hour week anyway. Indian women’s unpaid work plays a crucial role in sustaining economic activity, equivalent to 3.1% of the gross domestic product (GDP), according to this 2018 report by the International Labour Organization. Unpaid care work entails a “systemic transfer of hidden subsidies” to the economy, in turn imposing a “systemic time tax on women”, a 2018 Oxfam report says. Comparing unpaid work across countries, the report found that Indian women do the most unpaid care and domestic work of any country globally, except Kazakhstan--a country with 94% lower GDP than India