The Invisible Hand that Rocks the Cradle
On the Limits of Time Use Surveys
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3883944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erin Lentz, Erin C Lentz (0000-0001-9934-9496), Rachel Bezner Kerr (0000-0003-4525-6096), Raj Patel (0000-0003-3093-8502), Laifolo Dakishoni (0000-0001-5569-532X), Esther Lupafya |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 301-328 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/dech.12426 |
| OpenAlex | W2805711468 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 27 |
Almost every intervention in the field of international agricultural development - from microcredit finance to fertilizer subsidies to trade policy - has come to recognize gender, and relationships within households, as important. Yet most interventions continue to treat the household as a 'black box', with changes within the household measured by the effects on income, anthropometry, health, or other secondary metrics within bargaining models. In this context, there has been increasing interest in time use studies as a way to peer inside this black box. This article offers a review of methods and identifies some of the difficulties facing time use studies in capturing intrahousehold dynamics, and presents the results of a two-season simultaneous activity time use study in Malawi which aimed to address these difficulties. The results suggest significant limitations to time use surveys. The kinds of reproductive labour that often interest researchers may be invisible to the women responding to time use surveys, with the result that care work is dramatically under-reported. The authors discuss the implications of the divergence between researchers' concerns and the women's reports of their lives for time use surveys, and for feminist development research methods more broadly
Context (archaeology) · Economics · Geography · Intervention (counseling) · Psychological intervention · Public economics · Subsidy · Work (physics) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology
Securing meaningful life
The burdens of participation
A qualitative assessment of gender roles in child nutrition in Central Malawi
The Time-Use Agency Scale
Housework and earnings
Women farm what they can manage
Son preference, intergenerational household dynamics, and women’s mental health in India
Time availability as a mediator between socioeconomic status and health
Intraseasonal Variations in Time Use, Food Security, and Health Outcomes among Women in Rural Malawi
Centering the body in agricultural development
Multiple Temporalities of Household Labour
Hours of Work and Early Childhood Education and Access to Care Services in Latin America
Labour pains and labour power
Gender, Development, and Globalization
Gender, Time Use, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Woman's Role in Economic Development
Intrahousehold Bargaining and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries
The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index
Choosing Words with Care? Shifting meanings of women's empowerment in international development
By what measure? family time devoted to children in the united states
Round About a Pound a Week
Explorations
An Assessment of Alternative Measures of Time Use
Resources, Agency, Achievements
Cook, eat, man, woman
Pictorial Approaches for Measuring Time Use in Rural Ethiopia
Guidelines for time use data collection
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |