Overview

• ENUT 2024 reports that women spent 64.8% of their weekly work time on unpaid domestic, care, community and voluntary activities.
• Women averaged 61.1 total hours of work per week versus 58 for men, while the national average was 59.6 hours with 51.6% devoted to unpaid productive activities.
• The unpaid-work gap averaged about 20.5 hours weekly, with women dedicating roughly 40 hours to unpaid tasks compared with just over 18 for men.
• Gender differences vary widely by location, with the largest total-work gaps in Oaxaca (8.4 hours), Guerrero and Nayarit (7.1), and small or reversed gaps in Quintana Roo (-0.4) and Yucatán (-0.2).
• Inequalities are sharper for indigenous-language speakers (27.3 additional hours for women) and residents of localities under 10,000 people (26.4), based on data collected Oct. 7–Nov. 29, 2024 from 32,048 households that also captured new activity categories.