Economics

Indian Women Spend 5 Hours a Day on Domestic Work, Survey Shows

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Women in India spend about five hours a day on unpaid domestic work, or thrice as much time as men, according to a new survey by the government.

Only about 18% of women participated in employment and related activities in a day, against 57% of men, according to the findings of the first Time-Use survey by the Ministry of Statistics.