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

This edited volume uses a feminist approach to explore the economic implications of the complex interrelationship between gender and time use. Household composition, sexuality, migration patterns, income levels, and race/ethnicity are all considered as important factors that interact with gender and time use patterns. The book is split in two sections: The macroeconomic portion explores cutting edge issues such as time poverty and its relationship to income poverty, and the macroeconomic effects of recession and austerity; while the microeconomic section studies topics such as differences by age, activity sequencing, and subjective well-being of time spent. The chapters also examine a range of age groups, from the labor of school-age children to elderly caregivers, and analyze time use in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Finland, India, Korea, South Africa, Tanzania, Turkey, and the United States. Each chapter provides a substantial introduction to the academic literature of its focus and is written to be revealing to researchers and accessible to students and policymakers. 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, USA Lourdes Benera, Cornell University, USA Judith E. Brown, University of New South Wales, Australia Rebecca M. Centanni, Analysis Group, Boston, USA Lyn Craig, University of New South Wales, Australia Deborah S. DeGraff, Bowdoin College, USA Esther W. Dungumaro, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Valeria Esquivel, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Maria S. Floro, American University, USA Erofili Grapsa, Rhodes University, South Africa Ipek Ilkkaracan, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Jiweon Jun, University of Oxford, UK Charlene Kalenkoski, Texas Tech University, USA Deborah Levison, University of Minnesota, USA Fiona MacPhail, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Thomas Masterson, Levy Economics Institute, USA Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Bates College, USA Emel Memis, Ankara University, Turkey Julie A. Nelson, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Dorrit Posel, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Mark Price, Keystone Research Center, USA Smriti Rao, Assumption College, USA Esther D. Rothblum, San Diego State University, USA Jill Rubery, European Work and Employment Research Centre, UK Abhilasha Srivastava, American University, USA Lyndall Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia Ajit Zacharias, Levy Economics Institute, USA