"This volume uses unpaid work and time-use survey data (TUS) from across the global South to elucidate the need to incorporate unpaid work into economic analysis in order to better understand poverty and gender (in)equality"--Provided by publisher

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of women to that of men. In this study, we use a new...

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of women to that of men. In this study, we use a new...