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July 2009

Measuring time spent in unpaid household work: results from the American Time Use Survey

Rachel M. Krantz-Kent

Time-use data show that on average Americans spend more than 20 hours per week working for their own household without pay on tasks that might be done by a paid worker; women spend more time at such unpaid household work.

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