According to Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's report on gender and employment, there is a worldwide increase in women's participation in the labour force but considerable gaps remain in working hours, conditions of employment and earnings.
An analysis of the most countries included in the analysis shows that women work more than men when the total time spent including paid and unpaid work.
Across the member countries of the OECD, women on an average spend 21 minutes more in total work each day than men do. Overall, the gap is the widest in India, where women spend on average 94 minutes more time than the men on total work each day, the OECD report said.
However, in some countries -- Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and New Zealand -- men spend slightly more time than women on total work per day. In Britain and Germany,
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