Across Kenyan households, women perform the bulk of unpaid care and domestic work. Time use surveys by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) indicate that women spend about 4 hours 30 minutes daily on unpaid care and domestic work, roughly five times more than men, who spend about 54 minutes.
This gap begins in childhood and widens through the lifecycle, with girls aged 15‑17 spending around three times the time boys spend on similar tasks.
