Women still spending over three hours daily on unpaid care: MOHWBy Lin Chih-yi and Sam Garcia / Staff reporter, with staff writerTaiwanese women spent more than three hours per day on average providing unpaid care in 2024, only slightly less than five years before, with married and partnered women doing more housework than others, Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) data showed. However, traditional division of labor within families remains, with women providing more care for family members and doing more housework, it added. This is only nine minutes less than the average time women spent providing daily unpaid care in 2019, the ministry said. Married and partnered women spend 2.6 times more time on unpaid care than their spouses or partners, primarily on childcare and housework. With generational change, women would continue to spend less time providing unpaid care, Social and Family Affairs Administration Acting Director Chou Tao-chun (周道君) said.

Source: Taipei Times January 05, 2026 08:11 UTC