The Allocation of Women's Time

An International Comparison

Bibliographic Data

ID11101378
AuthorsRobert E Evenson (Yale University, corresponding author)
Year1982
Volume17
Issue3-4
Pages196-215
Publication date1982-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBehavior Science Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-3673
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/106939718201700303
OpenAlexW2031511727
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited8

This paper reviews measures of time devoted by adult women to market work, household work, and leisure as reported in a number of previous studies. It sumrnar izes data from eight studies in developed market economies, eleven studies in developed central planned economies, and nine studies in less developed countries. Comparisons between women employed in formal labor markets and women with out formal employment are made. They show that women in planned economies tend to have the highest levels of both market and household work and the lowest levels of leisure. Most of this difference, however, is accounted for by the relatively high levels of formal employment by women in planned economies. In all types of economies, employed women work more hours and enjoy roughly two and three- quarters hours less leisure per day than housewives. My economic interpretation of this pattern argues that costs associated with obtaining and keeping market employ ment of women can explain the substantial differences in leisure among them

Demographic economics · Economics · Economy · Interpretation (philosophy) · Labour economics · Leisure time · Time allocation · Work (physics) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Medicine · Work-Family Balance Challenges