The source specifies:
"Paid work refers to work done for the production of goods or services for the market and is calculated as the sum of time devoted to employment, job search and commuting".
"Unpaid work refers to work done without payment and develops mainly in the private sphere. It is measured by quantifying the time a person spent on self consumption work, unpaid domestic work and unpaid care for their own home or to support other household work or the community"
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Weekly hours spent on paid and unpaid work in Argentina 2021, by gender
In 2021, while men spent most of their working time in paid work, the share of time spent by women in unpaid work, such as domestic and care work. That it, female adults in Argentina spent on average 52.5 hours working every week and, of them, 33.2 hours were dedicated to unpaid work.
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Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (March 26, 2025). Average time spent on paid and unpaid work per week in Argentina in 2021, by gender [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 09, 2026, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1346853/average-time-spent-paid-unpaid-work-gender-argentina/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Average time spent on paid and unpaid work per week in Argentina in 2021, by gender." Chart. March 26, 2025. Statista. Accessed May 09, 2026. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1346853/average-time-spent-paid-unpaid-work-gender-argentina/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (2025). Average time spent on paid and unpaid work per week in Argentina in 2021, by gender. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 09, 2026. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1346853/average-time-spent-paid-unpaid-work-gender-argentina/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Average Time Spent on Paid and Unpaid Work per Week in Argentina in 2021, by Gender." Statista, Statista Inc., 26 Mar 2025, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1346853/average-time-spent-paid-unpaid-work-gender-argentina/
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Average time spent on paid and unpaid work per week in Argentina in 2021, by gender Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1346853/average-time-spent-paid-unpaid-work-gender-argentina/ (last visited May 09, 2026)
Average time spent on paid and unpaid work per week in Argentina in 2021, by gender [Graph], Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, March 26, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1346853/average-time-spent-paid-unpaid-work-gender-argentina/
