Gender gap narrowing, says report

Survey finds working moms doing more housework, but dads help out

As Mother's Day fell on Sunday, a joint report by recruitment portal Zhaopin and the National School of Development at Peking University has shed light on the circumstances of working mothers in China.

A survey conducted over the first two months of this year showed that despite their professional success, working mothers still shoulder the majority of household chores, with 77.2 percent of them spending over two hours a day on housework — up from 67.5 percent from the same two-month period in 2023 and significantly higher than the 47 percent of working fathers spending two hours on chores each day, the report said.

However, only 16 percent of working fathers spent that much time on housework last year, with the survey indicating that a growing awareness of gender equality has encouraged working fathers to see chores at home as a shared responsibility.