Gender and Time Use in a Global Context

Rachel Connelly is the Bion R. Cram Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College, USA. Her recent research examines time use in the US, particularly as it relates to child caregiving, and the relationships between family structure, age, migration, and time use in China. She is an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics. Ebru Kongar is Associate Professor of Economics at Dickinson College, USA. Her research focuses on the gendered time use and labor market outcomes of macroeconomic developments, such as deindustrialization, offshoring, and the Great Recession in the US economy. She is an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics. Contributor Affiliations:Rania Antonopoulos, Alternate Minister for Labour, Greece; Levy Economics Institute, USALourdes Benería, Cornell University, USAJudith E. Brown, University of New South Wales, AustraliaRebecca M. Centanni, Analysis Group, Boston, USALyn Craig, University of New South Wales, AustraliaDeborah S. DeGraff, Bowdoin College, USAEsther W. Dungumaro, University of Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaValeria Esquivel, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsMaria S. Floro, American University, USAErofili Grapsa, Rhodes University, South Africaİpek İlkkaracan, Istanbul Technical University, TurkeyJiweon Jun, University of Oxford, UKCharlene Kalenkoski, Texas Tech University, USADeborah Levison, University of Minnesota, USAFiona MacPhail, University of Northern British Columbia, CanadaThomas Masterson, Levy Economics Institute, USAMargaret Maurer-Fazio, Bates College, USAEmel Memiş, Ankara University, TurkeyJulie A. Nelson, University of Massachusetts Boston, USADorrit Posel, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaMark Price, Keystone Research Center, USASmriti Rao, Assumption College, USAEsther D. Rothblum, San Diego State University, USAJill Rubery, European Work and Employment Research Centre, UKAbhilasha Srivastava, American University, USALyndall Strazdins, The Australian National University, AustraliaAjit Zacharias, Levy Economics Institute, USA

1. Feminist Approaches to Time Use.- 2. Unpaid Work in Macroeconomics: A Stocktaking Exercise.- 3. The Challenge of Austerity For Gender Equality In Europe.- 4. Women, Recession, and Austerity.- 5. Paid and Unpaid Work Time by Labor Force Status of Prime Age Women and Men in Canada.- 6. Gender, Socieconomic Status, Time-Use, and the Great Recession in the U.S..- 7. Time and Income Poverty in the Case of Buenos Aires.- 8. The Dual Problem of Unemployment and Time Poverty in South Africa.- 9. Women and the Urban Economy in India.- 10. The Challenge of “Indirect Care”.- 11. Caregiving by Older Adults in the United States.- 12. Division of Workforce and Domestic Labor among Same-Sex Couples.- 13. Double Shift, Double Balance: Housework in the Presence of Children in the United States.- 14. How Do Caregiving Responsibilities Shape the Time Use of Women and Men in Rural China?.- 15. Gendered Patterns of Time Use over the Life Cycle in Turkey.- 16. Environmental Chores, Household Time Use, and Gender in Rural Tanzania.- 17. Gender Divisions in the Real Time of the Elderly in South Africa.- 18. Is it Just Too Hard? Gender Time Symmetry in Market and Nonmarket Work and Subjective Time Pressure in Australia, Finland, and Korea.