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Women across the world work on average 39 more days a year than men, with females in India working over 50 days extra compared to their male counterparts, a new report has found.
On average, women work 50 minutes more a day than men globally, data from the new World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Gender Gap report suggests.
In only six countries do men work more hours than women, but notably three of these are Nordic countries where parental leave can be shared relatively evenly between men and women.
Although men do 34 percent more paid work than women, the latter still spend more of their time on unpaid work such as housework, childcare and care for older people.
The gap in economic opportunity is now larger than at any point since 2008, even though nearly a quarter of a billion women have entered the global workforce over the past decade, according to the report.
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