Employed men work 42 minutes more per day than females on average, experts found

Men spend longer at work but women complete more household tasks, a new study says.

Employed men work 42 minutes more per day than females on average, experts found.

Despite women being more likely to work part-time due to childhood commitments, the same trend was reported among full-time workers.

Men doing more than 35 hours per week worked for 8.2 hours on average, while women completed only 7.8, the 2015 American Time Use Survey, who provides statistics to the US government, found.

Fifty per cent of women said they cleaned or cooked every day while only 22 per cent of men claimed to do the same.

Astonishingly, 70 per cent of women said they prepared or cleaned up food in an average day, compared to 43 per cent of men.

But men were more likely to take care of the garden than their counterparts, 12 per cent compared to eight.

Gender roles may still exist in some aspects, but it's on an ever decreasing trend, according to the study by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Men who prepped food every day has increased by eight per cent since 2003, and women doing housework has dropped four per cent over the same time frame.

The study reads: 'On an average day, 22 per cent of men did housework - such as cleaning or laundry - compared with 50 per cent of women.

'43 per cent of men did food preparation or cleanup, compared with 70 per cent of women.

'Men were slightly more likely to engage in lawn and garden care than were women - 12 per cent compared with 8 per cent.'

Conducted annually, researchers interviewed nearly 10,900 people in 2015 by telephone.

Women spent one hour providing physical care, such as bathing or feeding, to children under the age of six while men spent 25 minutes providing the same care.

Astonishingly, 70 per cent of women said they prepared food every day, compared to 43 per cent of men

The study also found 82 per cent of employed adults did some or all of their work from their workplace, while 24 per cent done some or all from home.

Workers with less than a high school diploma spent 94 per cent of their working hours at their place of work.

In comparison, employed people over the age of 25 with a degree or higher spent 39 of their working hours at home.

On the days they did household activities, women spent an average of 2.6 hours doing so, while men spent 2.1 for the same.

The study also recorded the amount of time adults spent completing leisure activities, such as watching television, socialising or exercising.

Men were found to be more likely than women to exercise or participate in sports on a given day.

And when women did engage in sporting activity, they spent only 1.2 hours doing so, compared to 1.7 by men.