Report Shows Fijian Women Do More Unpaid Work, Have Less Free Time

The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement has launched a report which exposes the inequities women and girls face in terms of paid work, unpaid household work and leisure time.

Monday 06 March 2023 | 16:30

Staff Writer

Nalini Singh.

The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement has launched a report which exposes the inequities women and girls face in terms of paid work, unpaid household work and leisure time.

Its director, Nalini Singh, said the report, entitled Beyond 33%: The Economic Empowerment of Fiji Women and Girls, showed Fijian females comprised just 34 per cent of the labour force, and men the rest.

But females do 73 per cent of the unpaid household work.