Counting Women's Work 6/10/21 Counting Women's Work 6/10/21

"National Time Transfer Accounts: On the gender gap and unpaid work in the Global South" Online Symposium

Scholars and practitioners from around the world met online to share results on unpaid care work using the National Time Transfer Accounts framework developed by Counting Women’s Work.

Led by the Colombia NTA/CWW research team, a group of scholars and practitioners met to share their research and experience in the measurement of unpaid care work in the Global South. The discussions covered specific country results, disaggregated country results, comparative results with a few countries, lessons learned across all of the countries in the project, and a look into the role of national statistical offices in collecting data on unpaid care work and turning it into actionable results.

Speakers and Topics:

Latif Dramani, U. Thiès/CREG-CREFAT, Senegal. Presented comparative results from Senegal and Burkina Faso, demonstrating size of unpaid care work economy and how large this economy is compared to the market economy. Comparing/contrasting results from the two contries.
B. Piedad Urdinola, U. Nacional, Colombia. Deep dive into results on unpaid care work from the recently available Colombian Time Use survey of 2016-2017, with results broken down by household structure.
Jordana Jesus, U. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Innovative methodology used to estimate complete set of unpaid work age profiles for Brazil using only one survey item on unpaid housework and imputed care estimates based on regional comparative data.
Gretchen Donehower, U.C. Berkeley, United States. Overview of cross-country results from CWW and what they mean for policy.
Juan Daniel Oviedo, National Statistics Office – DANE, Colombia. Described Colombia’s commitment to collecting gender data including high-quality time use surveys, and demonstrated what is learned from such data collection and how it is used by stakeholders including policymakers, researchers, and civil society.

Moderator

Jorge Tovar, U. de Los Andes, Colombia. Led the discussion into how these estimates can be used, how it shapes the global discussion on unpaid care work, and what the limitations and opportunities are from the research presented.

Counting Women's Work 4/17/20 Counting Women's Work 4/17/20

Time Use, Policy, and Economic Growth Online Symposium

Counting Women's Work and the Population Reference Bureau collaborated on a webinar featuring CWW country teams discussing research and policy around the world and a senior national statistician giving the perspective of someone directly involved in public policy and public statistics.

In collaboration with the Population Reference Bureau, the Counting Women’s Work project held an online webcast to explore policy applications of research into time use and unpaid care work. The discussion was policy focused, with the main questions revolving around how estimates like CWW’s National Time Transfer Accounts can impact policy. We were honored to host several speakers who are long-time participants in the Counting Women’s Work project and one chief national statistician who gave his perspective on these important issues from outside the project.

Speakers:

Morne Oosthuizen, DPRU/ University of Cape Town
Latif Dramani, CREG-CREFAT
Beatriz Urdinola Piedad, National University of Colombia-Bogotá
Juan Daniel Oviedo, National Statistics Office – DANE, Colombia

Moderators

Gretchen Donehower, Counting Women’s Work

Marlene Lee, Population Reference Bureau

In preparation for the session, the Population Reference Bureau prepared a fact sheet featuring CWW research in Vietnam, Colombia, and Senegal. The fact sheet features definitions and basic methodology and shows how CWW research helps policymakers understand gender gaps in work and income, as well as how they differ by socioeconomic status, or urban/rural residence.

Counting Women's Work 4/1/19 Counting Women's Work 4/1/19

Time Use and Transfers in the Americas - Producing, Consuming, and Sharing Time Across Generations and Genders

CWW researchers published Time Use and Transfers in the Americas: Producing, Consuming, and Sharing Time Across Generations and Genders, featuring chapters on National Time Transfer Accounts methodology, results from Costa Rica, Uruguay, Colombia, and the United States, as well as cross-country comparative work.

Urdinola, B.P. and Tovar, J.A., 2019. Time Use and Transfers in the Americas. Springer International Publishing.

About this book:

This book provides a comparison of the measurement in time and monetary units of unpaid domestic work in Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the Hispanic ethnicity in the United States. A standardized technique allows the development of comparable estimates across countries per age and gender which reveal specific behavioral patterns over the life cycle. A mixture of economic conditions, social norms, and demographic trends provide insightful explanations for the unequal burden that women and girls carry when dealing with unpaid domestic activities, an economically significant but traditionally neglected activity. As such, the book is of interested to practitioners in all social sciences, particularly sociologists, demographers, economists, and policymakers.

Counting Women's Work 10/16/18 Counting Women's Work 10/16/18

Infographic, Colombia

CWW infographics summarize the market-based and unpaid care work economy in a country. This post shows the infographic for Colombia.

Counting Women’s Work estimates of the market and unpaid care work economies can be summarized with a series of statistics. CWW produces infographics to show these results. Infographics are available with a dark or light background. The infographic for Colombia is shown below.

All infographics are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Counting Women's Work 8/9/18 Counting Women's Work 8/9/18

CWW Working Paper No. 5

CWW Working Paper WP5 is by B. Piedad Urdinola and Jorge A. Tovar, and details the CWW research for Colombia. It is entitled Time Use and Gender in Colombia.

The fifth publication in the Counting Women’s Work working paper series focuses on results for Colombia. CWW working papers provide more detailed analysis than the Country Reports and are authored by the CWW country teams.

CWW Working Paper WP5 is by B. Piedad Urdinola and Jorge A. Tovar, and details the CWW research for Colombia. It is entitled Time Use and Gender in Colombia and can be downloaded below.