6/20/2023 0 Comments Work life balance during covidWomen spent much more time on childcare than men when the child was aged under five Average minutes per day spent on activity spread across all days, Great Britain, 2020īut when it came to paid work, men contributed an average of more than 45 minutes more per day than women, amounting to 2 hours and 56 minutes, compared with 2 hours and 9 minutes. Generally, women supplied a larger part of the childcare time in households with younger children. The amount of childcare provided, and the extent to which women or men provided it, depended greatly on the age of the child. Younger children received more childcare from women This may provide further insight into parents’ involvement in these tasks. However further analysis revealed that parents found developmental care more enjoyable than non-developmental care. The time men and women spent with their children on developmental childcare 1 (such as reading to children) was more balanced. Women carried out 53 minutes of non-developmental childcare per day whereas men contributed 30 minutes. This gender difference in total provision of childcare 1 was mostly driven by the extra time women spent in carrying out non-developmental childcare such as washing, feeding and dressing children and supervision of children.įor those with a child aged under 18 years in the household, the time women spent on non-developmental childcare eclipsed that of men by 77%.
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