Gender Patterns and Value of Unpaid Work: Findings from China’s First Large-Scale Time Use Survey
Gender Patterns and Value of Unpaid Work: Findings from China’s First Large-Scale Time Use Survey
Xiao-yuan Dong, Xinli An
2012-10-05
Geneva
Many
ISSN: 2305-5375
The authors take a close look at unpaid work using data from China’s first large-scale time use survey (TUS) conducted in 2008. They document the gender patterns of time allocation over three activities: paid work, unpaid work and non-work activity (self-care and leisure). In China, as in many other countries, men spent more hours on paid work than women while women spent more hours on unpaid work than men. When the amount of time spent on paid and unpaid work was added together, women were found to have spent many more hours working than men did.
