it is a useful tool for policymakers seeking to promote gender equality and improve womens wellbeing using a sample of couples from the china national time use survey ctus this study examines the relationship between bargaining power and the amount of time allocated to household and care work and market work it is found that wives spend a longer time working in a day minutes than husbands minutes the findings also show that the impact of bargaining power on womens time in unpaid work is complicated