Women Report Spending More Time than Men on Household and Caregiving Activities

Hours per day spent on each activity among people who report doing this activity

* A larger percentage of women report doing these activities than men do. In the case of care for non-household members, a higher share of women report spending time on this activity (10.5% of women compared to 6.4% of men), but women report spending fewer hours than men who engage in this use of time.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, American Time Use Survey, 2024 (Table 1).Get the dataDownload image