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No Evidence of Shedding Burden of Non-Market Household Work by Women in India

Laishram Ladusingh, Aruna Roy, Preeti Dhillon, and Balhasan Ali

Time use survey (TUS) of India conducted in 2019 after a gap of twenty years since the first TUS women regardless of residence background spent over four hours dailies on the average with no significant change over time in cooking, food preparation and serving, washing and household maintenance while their male counterpart spent just about 20 minutes for the same activities. Women devote on the average 30 to 45 minutes daily for taking of sick members in the households while men spare just 10-15 minutes. During the period 1999 to 2019 daily time spent on personal care including sleeping time for both male and female regardless of residence have reduced by two hours. Time spent for socio-cultural activities in rural areas have gone up by an hour for either sex while no such change is notice in urban areas. No change in time for learning and community services were noticed.