Total time spent in work

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation comprising of wealthy nations. Among its other functions the OECD gathers and releases some data relevant to the men's rights movement.

OECD data on paid and unpaid work done by men and women shows that in most countries the difference in total work disappears when you add paid & unpaid work together. Moreover the OECD data does not include commute times which would drive up the total for men.

Country	OECD	Time spent in Total Work (minutes per day)
		Male	Female	Absolute Difference	Percentage Difference
Australia	Yes	475.7	483.0	7.3	1.5
Austria	Yes	500.1	517.9	17.8	3.4
Belgium	Yes	417.9	436.6	18.7	4.3
Canada	Yes	488.7	491.9	3.2	0.7
Denmark	Yes	446.2	437.4	8.8	2.0
Estonia	Yes	424.2	494.1	69.9	14.1
Finland	Yes	406.0	445.7	39.7	8.9
France	Yes	370.1	399.4	29.3	7.3
Germany	Yes	440.0	447.7	7.7	1.7
Greece	Yes	369.4	444.0	74.6	16.8
Hungary	Yes	435.0	496.3	61.3	12.4
Ireland	Yes	467.8	487.4	19.6	4.0
Italy	Yes	351.5	439.5	88.0	20.0
Japan	Yes	492.6	495.8	3.2	0.7
Korea	Yes	468.0	484.4	16.4	3.4
Latvia	Yes	506.7	541.7	35	6.5
Lithuania	Yes	505.9	571.2	65.3	11.4
Luxembourg	Yes	451.1	478.5	27.4	5.7
Mexico	Yes	609.8	567.6	42.2	7.4
Netherlands	Yes	430.4	426.4	4.0	0.9
New Zealand	Yes	479.0	469.0	10.0	2.1
Norway	Yes	445.9	427.4	18.5	4.3
Poland	Yes	473.6	498.2	24.6	4.3
Portugal	Yes	468.6	559.4	90.8	16.2
Slovenia	Yes	466.3	520.4	54.1	10.4
Spain	Yes	382.1	455.9	73.8	16.2
Sweden	Yes	484.0	495.3	9.3	1.9
Turkey	Yes	425.8	439.0	13.2	3.0
United Kingdom	Yes	448.7	464.8	16.1	3.5
United States	Yes	465.1	487.1	22.0	4.5
OECD - Average	N/A	453.2	480.1	26.9	5.6
China	No	481.0	525.0	44.0	8.4
India	No	442.3	536.6	94.3	17.6
South Africa	No	397.1	444.6	47.5	10.7

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• Time spent in paid and unpaid work, by sex