Gender Differences in Time Use : Allocating Time between the Market and the Household

Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms, stereotypes, and the unequal distribution of housework and childcare responsibilities persist. Lifetime events such as marriage an...

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Main Authors: Rubiano-Matulevich, Eliana, Viollaz, Mariana
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/555711565793045322/Gender-Differences-in-Time-Use-Allocating-Time-between-the-Market-and-the-Household
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spelling okr-10986-322742022-09-20T00:13:18Z Gender Differences in Time Use : Allocating Time between the Market and the Household Rubiano-Matulevich, Eliana Viollaz, Mariana GENDER TIME ALLOCATION DOMESTIC WORK FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION GENDER ROLES GENDER INEQUALITY Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms, stereotypes, and the unequal distribution of housework and childcare responsibilities persist. Lifetime events such as marriage and parenthood bring substantial changes in time use among women and men. This paper updates and reinforces the findings of previous studies by analyzing gender differences in the allocation of time among market work and unpaid domestic work. Results from the analysis of time use patterns in 19 countries of different income levels and from various regions suggest that women specialize in unpaid domestic and care work and men specialize in market work. The paper employs propensity score matching to assess the marriage and parenthood "penalty" on time use patterns over the lifecycle. The findings indicate that women of prime working age are the most penalized on a host of measures, including labor market participation, unpaid domestic work, and leisure time. Men are not necessarily penalized for, and sometimes benefit from, marriage or parenthood. 2019-08-16T16:39:29Z 2019-08-16T16:39:29Z 2019-08 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/555711565793045322/Gender-Differences-in-Time-Use-Allocating-Time-between-the-Market-and-the-Household http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32274 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8981 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic GENDER
TIME ALLOCATION
DOMESTIC WORK
FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
GENDER ROLES
GENDER INEQUALITY
spellingShingle GENDER
TIME ALLOCATION
DOMESTIC WORK
FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
GENDER ROLES
GENDER INEQUALITY
Rubiano-Matulevich, Eliana
Viollaz, Mariana
Gender Differences in Time Use : Allocating Time between the Market and the Household
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8981
description Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms, stereotypes, and the unequal distribution of housework and childcare responsibilities persist. Lifetime events such as marriage and parenthood bring substantial changes in time use among women and men. This paper updates and reinforces the findings of previous studies by analyzing gender differences in the allocation of time among market work and unpaid domestic work. Results from the analysis of time use patterns in 19 countries of different income levels and from various regions suggest that women specialize in unpaid domestic and care work and men specialize in market work. The paper employs propensity score matching to assess the marriage and parenthood "penalty" on time use patterns over the lifecycle. The findings indicate that women of prime working age are the most penalized on a host of measures, including labor market participation, unpaid domestic work, and leisure time. Men are not necessarily penalized for, and sometimes benefit from, marriage or parenthood.
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author Rubiano-Matulevich, Eliana
Viollaz, Mariana
author_facet Rubiano-Matulevich, Eliana
Viollaz, Mariana
author_sort Rubiano-Matulevich, Eliana
title Gender Differences in Time Use : Allocating Time between the Market and the Household
title_short Gender Differences in Time Use : Allocating Time between the Market and the Household
title_full Gender Differences in Time Use : Allocating Time between the Market and the Household
title_fullStr Gender Differences in Time Use : Allocating Time between the Market and the Household
title_full_unstemmed Gender Differences in Time Use : Allocating Time between the Market and the Household
title_sort gender differences in time use : allocating time between the market and the household
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2019
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/555711565793045322/Gender-Differences-in-Time-Use-Allocating-Time-between-the-Market-and-the-Household
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