Gender Inequalities in Allocating Time to Paid and Unpaid Work: Evidence from Bolivia – Working Paper # 34   

 

In this Working Paper Marcelo Medeiros, Rafael Osorio and Joana Costa analyze inequalities in paid and unpaid work-time among Bolivian urban adults using time use data from a 2001 household survey. They find very high levels of within-group inequality in the distributions of paid and unpaid work-time for both men and women. They show that gender is an important variable to explain how much paid and unpaid work is done by individuals, but not so important to explain why some people have a higher total workload than others. 

 

Available online at: http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pub/IPCWorkingPaper34.pdf  

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