According to the report men and women on average spend approximately the same amount of time working, but while the majority of men's work is paid, the majority of women's work is unpaid. Both males and females aged 12 and over work an average of seven hours a day or 49 hours a week. However, while approximately 60 percent of men's work is paid, almost 70 percent of women's work is unpaid. The report broke down Unpaid work into several categories such as, household work, caregiving, purchasing goods and services for households, and voluntary work outside the home. Women spent more time than men on all of these activities, averaging 4.8 hours of unpaid work each day, compared with men's 2.8 hours.
Household work is the most common type of unpaid work.
In this category, the most time-consuming activities are food and drink preparation and clean up and indoor cleaning and laundry. Women spend an average of 62 minutes a day on food and drink preparation and clean-up, and 61 minutes a day on cleaning and laundry, compared with men's 29 minutes and 15 minutes, respectively. The report also had a break down by ethnicity. Maori on average spend less time than non-Maori on paid work, but spend more time on unpaid work. Maori females aged 12 and over average five hours of unpaid work each day, compared with 4.7 hours for non-Maori females.