MEN need to roll up their sleeves and get stuck into domestic chores — because official statistics revealed yesterday show that women are still doing far more unpaid work around the house.

Women do more than double the amount of chores compared to men when it comes to cooking, shopping, childcare and housework, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

On average, women clock in 26 hours a week of unpaid housework compared to 16 hours for men.

The only area where men put in more time is in driving their friends and family around.

The ONS said the average man would earn £166 a week on top of his waged job if housework, childcare and running errands were paid, compared to £259 for a woman.

TUC employment rights officer Sally Brett said: “Women do a lot more unpaid housework and childcare than men and they face the double whammy of getting paid less when they are at work.

“If women are going to get better opportunities in the workplace, men need to do their fair share at home.

“Giving decent paid leave for new fathers and tackling long working hours would help encourage that.”

Women aged 26-35 do an average of 34 hours of housework a week.

Mothers on maternity leave do the most chores with 60 hours a week of looking after their home and at least one child, the data for 2015 shows.

Full-time students were the most housework-shy, doing an average of 12 hours a week.

Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rebecca Long-Bailey said the figures are a reminder that the government has “let working women down for too long.”

There is no single solution to shifting the balance of housework between men and women because “structural inequalities” contribute to unfairness, according to the Women’s Equality Party.

Party leader Sophie Walker told the Star: “Women continue to be disproportionately responsible for unpaid domestic work, especially childcare.

“In addition, more and more women have taken on responsibilities in working and public life, while still carrying the bulk of work at home.

“We have clear plans to tackle the structural inequalities that underlie these patterns of behaviour, including paying men and women equally, providing affordable childcare and establishing fair parental leave arrangements so that families can better balance how they share care.”