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Gender-Equitable Public Investment: How Time-Use Surveys Can Help
Direct Link to Full 4-Page 2014 Policy Briefing:
Macroeconomic policy often fails to
recognize the disproportionate burden of unpaid care work on women, and as a
result reinforces both gender and
income inequalities.
By providing detailed information on
how this burden is unequally distributed across gender, class, ethnicity and
other socioeconomic
characteristics, time-use data can
help in guiding more equitable allocations of public resources and promoting
government budget priorities that
recognize the importance of unpaid
work, both for the economy and for human wellbeing.
“Time-use surveys can help to
address the problem of women’s activities not being ‘counted’ in statistics, ‘accounted
for’ in representations
of the economy and ‘taken into
account’ in policymaking.”