A NSSO survey finds that women in India continue to do over one more hour of work every day than men. While Indian men spend 80 percent of their working hours on paid work, women spend nearly 84 percent of their working hours on unpaid labor.
Only 21.8 percent of women aged 15-59 years were engaged in paid work in comparison to nearly 70.9 percent of the men. However, if we were to take into account both paid and unpaid work, women’s participation reaches 85 percent — men’s is just 73 percent.
According to the World Bank, female labor force participation in India has fallen by nearly 30 % in the last 20 years.
Globally, while unpaid domestic work by women is valued at nearly 13 percent of the total economy, in India, women’s unpaid domestic work is estimated to be valued at almost 40 percent of its current GDP. 
When Other Cast (OC) was used as a proxy for individuals from upper castes in the survey, the survey finds that women from the upper caste engaged in the least amount of paid work while upper caste men did the least amount of unpaid work.