Women’s Workday in Serbia Is often over 11 Hours  

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After the paid eight-hour workday, women in Serbia often have to perform additional unpaid work in their households for more than five hours, while the average unpaid work is three hours on a daily basis, according to results of a survey conducted by the Academy of Women’s Entrepreneurship in seven local self-governments in Vojvodina. 

“Household work performed by women is often presumed, easily taken and is not valued, so very few can estimate how much the state, the society and families save on this type of work, that is, how much women earn ‘invisibly’ for all of us,” it is said in a release from the Academy.  

In households, women spent most of the time cooking, cleaning, ironing, dish washing, and grocery shopping. By doing unpaid work in households, women save up for their families, but also for budgets of their local communities or states.  

The project covered the territories of self-governments of Subotica, Sombor, Backa Palanka, Bac, Kula, Vrbas, and Beocin. It has been supported by UN Women within program “Key steps towards gender equality, Phase II,” financed by the EU.