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This edited volume uses a feminist approach to explore the economic implications of the complex interrelationship between gender and time use. Household composition, sexuality, migration patterns, income levels, and race/ethnicity are all considered as important factors that interact with gender and time use patterns. The book is split in two sections: The macroeconomic portion explores cutting edge issues such as time poverty and its relationship to income poverty, and the macroeconomic effects of recession and austerity; while the microeconomic section studies topics such as differences by age, activity sequencing, and subjective well-being of time spent. The chapters also examine a range of age groups, from the labor of school-age children to elderly caregivers, and analyze time use in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Finland, India, Korea, South Africa, Tanzania, Turkey, and the United States. Each chapter provides a substantial introduction to the academic literature of its focus and is written to be revealing to researchers and accessible to students and policymakers 1. Feminist Approaches to Time Use -- 2. Unpaid Work in Macroeconomics: A Stocktaking Exercise -- 3. The Challenge of Austerity For Gender Equality In Europe -- 4. Women, Recession, and Austerity -- 5. Paid and Unpaid Work Time by Labor Force Status of Prime Age Women and Men in Canada -- 6. Gender, Socieconomic Status, Time-Use, and the Great Recession in the U.S. -- 7. Time and Income Poverty in the Case of Buenos Aires -- 8. The Dual Problem of Unemployment and Time Poverty in South Africa -- 9. Women and the Urban Economy in India -- 10. The Challenge of “Indirect Care” -- 11. Caregiving by Older Adults in the United States -- 12. Division of Workforce and Domestic Labor among Same-Sex Couples -- 13. Double Shift, Double Balance: Housework in the Presence of Children in the United States -- 14. How Do Caregiving Responsibilities Shape the Time Use of Women and Men in Rural China? -- 15. Gendered Patterns of Time Use over the Life Cycle in Turkey -- 16. Environmental Chores, Household Time Use, and Gender in Rural Tanzania -- 17. Gender Divisions in the Real Time of the Elderly in South Africa -- 18. Is it Just Too Hard? Gender Time Symmetry in Market and Nonmarket Work and Subjective Time Pressure in Australia, Finland, and Korea
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