Girls and women in India carry out unpaid more care work and especially more domestic work than boys and men. https://thewire.in/women/in-charts-how-women-continue-to-shoulder-the-burden-of-unpaid-work
This problem is about both who does unpaid work and how much time they spend doing it.
A pre-pandemic survey of time use in India showed that in both urban and rural areas, girls and women aged 6+ were several times more likely than boys and men to do care work and especially domestic work — and the ones who did spend several times as long doing it.
These multiplying disparties mean domestic work takes up about 10 times as much of girls’ and women’s time.
by James Goldie
08/03/2024