Men need to get off the sofa and do some housework, data show

You may have spats at home about who is doing more housework, and those can be pretty hard to resolve. But it’s hard to argue with data.

The chart above shows cross-country data from the OECD National Time Use surveys on how many minutes men and women around the world spend each day on unpaid work and leisure activities. On average, men around the world spend more time watching TV, listening to the radio, and playing sports than women do. Women spend more time caring for family members and doing housework.

The only real debate seems to be who sleeps more — in most, but not all, countries, women get more shut-eye.