Women work four years more than men over their lifetime

A woman can expect to do four years more work than her male counterparts in her lifetime, a new report has found.

The report by charity ActionAid, titled ‘Not Ready, Still Waiting’, found that the time spent by women around the world on paid and unpaid work amounts to an extra month for every year of work - The Guardian reports.

The research compared women’s total unpaid hours of work with men’s in 217 developed and developing countries.

It found that worldwide, women’s average additional hours of unpaid work over the global life expectancy for women (69 years) came to an estimated 23 working years.