Could a 15 hour work week save the world & improve gender equality?

In 1930, influential economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that by 2030 we’d all be working just 15 hours a week, thanks to industrial and technological advances.

Yet, with the current average working week for female workers totalling 34 hours, a figure which rises to 39 hours for men, Keynes' 2030 deadline for a paradisiacal society of part-time work doesn’t look likely.

However, a modern-day Keynes, Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, believes if we all slashed our working week to 15 hours, we’d be better placed to tackle contemporary problems – The Independent reports.

Bregman’s new book, Utopia For Realists And How We Can Get There, argues that everyone should spend less time on paid work.