Counting Women's Work 9/21/18 Counting Women's Work 9/21/18

CWW Working Paper No. 6

CWW Working Paper WP6 is by Morné Oosthuizen, and details the CWW research for South Africa. It is entitled Counting Women's Work in South Africa: Estimates of Household Production across the Lifecycle in 2000.

The sixth publication in the Counting Women’s Work working paper series covers the results for South Africa using data for 2000. CWW working papers provide more detailed analysis than the Country Reports and are authored by the CWW country teams.

CWW Working Paper WP6 is by Morné Oosthuizen, and details the CWW research for South Africa. The paper is titled Counting Women's Work in South Africa: Estimates of Household Production across the Lifecycle in 2000. It can be downloaded through the link below.

Gretchen Donehower 9/18/18 Gretchen Donehower 9/18/18

CWW Takes Part in G20 Task Force on Gender Economic Equity

Counting Women's Work collaborated with a task force on Gender Economic Equity to make sure that discussions of women’s economic empowerment included evidence from both the market and household economies.

While Argentina holds the Presidency of the G20, or “Group of Twenty,” Argentinian officials and researchers have been coordinating several task forces to ensure that a diverse set of issues and viewpoints are represented in the talks. They call this effort the “Think 20” or “T20” group of task forces and the list of all topics appears here.

Counting Women’s Work was invited to be part of the task force on Gender Economic Equality and the project was represented by Mexico CWW team leader Estela Rivero Fuentes. Dr. Rivero Fuentes used CWW research to highlight the role of unpaid care work in creating gender inequality in access to market labor force opportunities. In addition, she was a contributing author to the Task Force’s volume on Gender Economic Equity: An Imperative for the G20. This represents one of the highest-level policy interactions for CWW.

After a meeting of the task force in September 2018, the T20 produced a comprehensive document that covers the current empirical reality of gendered economies around the world, as well as a set of specific policy recommendations that will be presented during the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in November 2018. This will be the first G20 summit held in South America.

Counting Women's Work 8/9/18 Counting Women's Work 8/9/18

CWW Working Paper No. 5

CWW Working Paper WP5 is by B. Piedad Urdinola and Jorge A. Tovar, and details the CWW research for Colombia. It is entitled Time Use and Gender in Colombia.

The fifth publication in the Counting Women’s Work working paper series focuses on results for Colombia. CWW working papers provide more detailed analysis than the Country Reports and are authored by the CWW country teams.

CWW Working Paper WP5 is by B. Piedad Urdinola and Jorge A. Tovar, and details the CWW research for Colombia. It is entitled Time Use and Gender in Colombia and can be downloaded below.

Counting Women's Work 8/8/18 Counting Women's Work 8/8/18

CWW Working Paper No. 4

This paper discusses the methodology used by researchers in the CWW project for constructing National Time Transfer Accounts (NTTA). The NTTAs measure the production and consumption of household production or unpaid care across the lifecycle, and the transfers across age groups implied by the patterns of these two flows.

CWW Working Paper WP4 is authored by Principal Investigator and Project Director Gretchen Donehower, and details the CWW methodology. The working paper, Measuring the Gendered Economy: Counting Women’s Work Methodology, can be downloaded below.

Counting Women's Work 5/24/18 Counting Women's Work 5/24/18

CWW Working Paper No.3

CWW Working Paper WP3 is by Eugenia Amporfu, Daniel Sakyi, Prince Boakye Frimpong, Eric Arthur and Jacob Novignon, and details the CWW research for Ghana. It is entitled: The Distribution of Paid and Unpaid Work among Men and Women in Ghana: The National Time Transfer Accounts Approach.

Today we publish the third of the Counting Women's Work Working Papers. These working papers provide more detailed analysis than the Country Reports and are authored by the CWW country teams.

Counting Women's Work 5/23/18 Counting Women's Work 5/23/18

CWW Policy Brief No. 1

CWW Policy Brief No. 1 demonstrates the importance of CWW research for a number of policy areas in developing countries. It is entitled How “Counting Women’s Work” Matters: Evidence from the Global South.

The first publication in the Counting Women’s Work working paper series focuses on results across a diverse group of countries in the “global south.” The analysis demonstrates that unpaid care work is a huge part of economic activity in these countries. Recognizing and understanding this vast but usually ignored sector of the economy has implications for policies related to labor force participation, girls’ education, family policy, and human capital investment.

CWW Policy Brief No. 1 is entitled How “Counting Women’s Work” Matters: Evidence from the Global South and can be downloaded below.