Gender and Time Use in a Global Context: The Economics of Employment and Unpaid Labor

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Feminist Approaches to Time Use....Pages 1-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Unpaid Work in Macroeconomics: A Stocktaking Exercise....Pages 29-50
The Challenge of Austerity for Gender Equality in Europe: A Consideration of Eight Countries at the Center of the Crisis....Pages 51-74
Women, Recession, and Austerity: A Comment on “The Challenge of Gender Austerity for Equality: A Consideration of Eight European Countries in the Crisis”....Pages 75-83
Paid and Unpaid Work Time by Labor Force Status of Prime Age Women and Men in Canada: The Great Recession and Gender Inequality in Work Time....Pages 85-112
Gender, Socioeconomic Status, Time Use of Married and Cohabiting Opposite-Sex Parents, and the Great Recession in the USA....Pages 113-159
Time and Income Poverty in the City of Buenos Aires....Pages 161-192
The Dual Problem of Unemployment and Time Poverty in South Africa: Understanding Their Linkages....Pages 193-230
Women and the Urban Economy in India: Insights from the Data on Migration....Pages 231-257
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
The Challenge of “Indirect Care”....Pages 261-269
Caregiving by Older Adults in the United States: Gender Differences in Well-being....Pages 271-282
Division of Workforce and Domestic Labor Among Same-Sex Couples....Pages 283-303
Double Shift, Double Balance: Housework in the Presence of Children in the United States....Pages 305-331
How Do Caregiving Responsibilities Shape the Time Use of Women and Men in Rural China?....Pages 333-371
Gendered Patterns of Time Use over the Life Cycle in Turkey....Pages 373-406
Environmental Chores, Household Time Use, and Gender in Rural Tanzania....Pages 407-434
Gender Divisions in the Real Time of the Elderly in South Africa....Pages 435-463
Is It Just Too Hard? Gender Time Symmetry in Market and Nonmarket Work and Subjective Time Pressure in Australia, Finland, and Korea....Pages 465-494
Back Matter....Pages 495-505