Based on primary data from India, this paper analyses the reasons underlying women's low labour force participation. In … developing countries, women engaged in unpaid economic work in family enterprises are often not counted as workers. Women are … leads to mismeasurement of women's work. Religion and visible markers such as veiling are not significant determinants of …

paper, we further examine the presence of poverty-based asymmetries in the unpaid work time changes of men and women given …. Our findings reveal that the changes in men's and women's unpaid work time indeed varied by poverty status. In particular …, the reduction in women's unpaid work time was driven by nonpoor women. Among men, the lack of the change masked the …