Gender, time use, and food consumption in India

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ID12319476
AuthorsPoulomi Roy (0000-0002-9612-8492, Jadavpur University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume24
Issue3
Pages378-396
Publication date2020-07-29
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGender Technology and Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0971-8524 • E-ISSN: 0973-0656
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09718524.2020.1761576
OpenAlexW3045930230
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited19

To understand the intrahousehold distribution of calorie, we consider daily calorie consumption and daily calorie expenditure by an individual. This paper uses information obtained from a 24-h recall dietary survey and a time use survey, and a face-to-face questionnaire survey of poor urban individuals in India. We find gender discrimination in the intrahousehold allocation of food and distribution of work over a 24-h period. Combined domestic and market work of a sample wife is 2 h 22 min longer than her husband in a day. The results strongly suggest that wives are overburdened with unpaid household activities, and they are not getting their due share in consumption compared to their husbands. Chronic energy input deficiency is significantly 186.30 kcal points higher in wives than their husbands

Agricultural economics · Calorie · Consumer Expenditure Survey · Consumption (sociology · Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics · Economics · Energy expenditure · Environmental health · Food consumption · Political science · Public economics · Recall · Sociology · Statistics · Survey data collection · Time allocation · Wife · Work (physics · Demography · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Medicine · Psychology · Gerontology

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