Gender, Time Use, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

By C. Blackden, Q. Wodon. 2006

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The papers in this volume examine the links between gender, time use, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. They contribute to a broader definition of poverty to include time poverty, and to a broader definition of work to include household work. The papers present a conceptual framework linking both market and household work, review some of the available literature and surveys on time use in Africa, and use tools and approaches drawn from analysis of consumption-based poverty to develop the concept of a time poverty line and to examine linkages between time poverty, consumption poverty, and other dimensions of development in Africa such as education and child labor.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Urban Studies

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Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth (2007, background): “3 In a study examining trends in schooling, age, and assets at marriage for men and women in six countries (Ethiopia, South Africa, Mexico, Guatemala, the Philippines and Bangladesh), Quisumbing and Hallman (2003) find that, over time, husband-wife gaps in educational have decreased in three countri”
Mainstreaming Gender Sensitivity in Cash Crop Market Supply Chains (2014, background): “As presented by Blackden and Wodon (2006), there is an important gender division of labor among various agricultural tasks.”
Gender, Weather Shocks and Welfare: Evidence from Malawi (2018, background): “Women make essential contributions to agricultural and rural economies, nonetheless they constitute one of the poorest and most disadvantaged groups in the society (Blackden and Wodon, 2006; CGAP, 2004; Doss & SOFA 2011; World Bank FAO & IFAD, 2009).”
Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy (2006, background): “Recent publications by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the World Bank provide important examples of attention to time use in unpaid work (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, 2004; Blackden and Wodon, 2006).”
If Women Hold Up Half the Sky, How Much of the World’s Food Do They Produce? (2014, background): “For example, some literature suggests that men in Africa work fewer hours than women, across all activities (Blackden and Wodon 2006).”
Women’s empowerment through electricity access: scoping study and proposal for a framework of analysis (2017, methodology): “Here we draw on a combination of health considerations (Matinga 2010, 28–39) and the notion of time poverty in terms of having enough time for rest and leisure (World Bank 2006, 6).”
The Welfare Impacts of Rural Electrification in Bangladesh (2011, background): “It might even be possible that the time saved, if used for productive purposes, can contribute to income growth (Blackden and Wodon 2006).”