Bosnia and Herzegovina is still recording extreme gender inequality in doing housework and care for children, which leaves negative consequences on private and professional lives of women, showed a joint study by the Gender Equality and the Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

‘The study on the impact of gender-based division of housework and family duties on professional lives of employed women in Bosnia and Herzegovina’ included the whole territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and was carried out through a face-to-face method based on a representative sample of 500 women.

Surveyed women were aged between 18 and 65, they lived with their partners for at least one year and were employed.

The results showed the women were actually working ‘a second shift’ at home, with 93.8 percent of them doing the most or all of the housework, while 80.8 percent of them were mostly or entirely taking care of the children.

The study warned this was leaving negative consequences on private and professional lives of the women, more precisely it was leaving them with fivefold less time for rest, personal or professional progress, taking part in social activities or politics.