Time Use and Transfers in the Americas - Producing, Consuming, and Sharing Time Across Generations and Genders

Urdinola, B.P. and Tovar, J.A., 2019. Time Use and Transfers in the Americas. Springer International Publishing.

About this book:

This book provides a comparison of the measurement in time and monetary units of unpaid domestic work in Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the Hispanic ethnicity in the United States. A standardized technique allows the development of comparable estimates across countries per age and gender which reveal specific behavioral patterns over the life cycle. A mixture of economic conditions, social norms, and demographic trends provide insightful explanations for the unequal burden that women and girls carry when dealing with unpaid domestic activities, an economically significant but traditionally neglected activity. As such, the book is of interested to practitioners in all social sciences, particularly sociologists, demographers, economists, and policymakers.

CWW Working Paper No. 8

The eighth publication in the Counting Women’s Work working paper series covers the results for South Africa for 2010. (The sixth working paper featured South African results from 2000.) CWW working papers provide more detailed analysis than the Country Reports and are authored by the CWW country teams.

CWW Working Paper WP8 is by Morné Oosthuizen, and gives more recent CWW research for South Africa. The paper is titled Counting Women's Work in South Africa: Incorporating Unpaid Work into Estimates of the Economic Lifecycle in 2010. It can be downloaded through the link below.

Infographic, Turkey

Counting Women’s Work estimates of the market and unpaid care work economies can be summarized with a series of statistics. CWW produces infographics to show these results. Infographics are available with a dark or light background. The infographic for Turkey is shown below.

All infographics are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Infographic, Uruguay

Counting Women’s Work estimates of the market and unpaid care work economies can be summarized with a series of statistics. CWW produces infographics to show these results. Infographics are available with a dark or light background. The infographic for Uruguay is shown below.

All infographics are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Infographic, India

Counting Women’s Work estimates of the market and unpaid care work economies can be summarized with a series of statistics. CWW produces infographics to show these results. Infographics are available with a dark or light background. The infographic for India is shown below.

All infographics are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Older people as unpaid care work producers at HelpAge Asia-Pacific Conference

Gretchen Donehower, PI of CWW, participated remotely in the HelpAge Asia-Pacific Regional Conference in Tehran, I.R. Iran, October 23-25, 2018. The focus of the conference, from the conference website, was "Family, Community and State in Ageing Societies - Demographic ageing is having profound impact on societal dynamics in Asia. The functions of the family, communities and governments are changing rapidly. How they can reinforce each other, and how they relate with longer periods of independence in old age, will need to be re-examined.”

Donehower presented research on time transfers in Asian countries, showing that women produce unpaid care work and transfer it to family and community members until the oldest age groups we observe. This means that aging societies have more productive potential than usually considered. It will take the right policies to enhance this potential and ensure the well-being of older persons and aging societies.

The conference paper can be accessed here.

Average time spent working at each age by type of work and sex, hours per week.