Being a Woman in China Means Working a Sixth of Your Life Unpaid

Being a woman is tough in China -- at least if you go by how men and women spend their day.

Chinese women on average spend 2.1 hours a day on housework, roughly three times that of men, according to a survey by the National Bureau of Statistics conducted last year and published Friday. The gap is much larger than that in the U.S., where women also work more than two hours on household activities, but men do twice as much as their Chinese counterparts.