clear trends emerge for women paid employment is increasing in most countries while unpaid work is decreasing women spend on average hour more on paid work per week and hours less on unpaid work than years ago while men s paid work has decreased on average by hours and their unpaid workload increased by hours the average increase in unpaid work done by men is however not observed in all countries partly because in some countries men worked even longer hours outside the home data refer to for the united states to for japan to for new zealand to for spain to for italy and to for norway