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Unpaid care work by women the missing link in analysis of gender gaps in labour outcomes

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Unpaid care work by women the missing link in analysis of gender gaps in labour outcomes

Unpaid care work by women the missing link in analysis of gender gaps in labour outcomes

Date
27th Jan, 2022
Author Name
Sonal Garg and Sabhya Rai
Posted by
NITI Aayog, New Delhi, India
Source
ETGovernment
Abstract
A Time Use Survey (TUS) published by the National Statistical Office (NSO) in 2019 revealed that 92 percent of women between 15-59 years spend an average of over 5 hours a day on unpaid domestic services whereas only 28.9 percent of men participated in unpaid domestic services, that too an average of just 1.5 hours.
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