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

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.

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Time Use, Policy, and Economic Growth Online Symposium

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.

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Symposium on Gender Gaps in National Transfer Accounts and National Time Transfer Accounts

Researchers, representatives from international organizations, members of the government of Colombia, media, students, and other interested parties met in Bogotá, Colombia on February 28, 2018 to share results from NTA and CWW researchers and learn about the challenges and concerns of various stakeholders around issues of inequality and transfers of money and time.

The event was organized by the CWW Colombia team including Dr. B. Piedad Urdinola, of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogotá, and Dr. Jorge A. Tovar of the Universidad de los Andes-Bogotá, and featured their research on Colombia as well as cross-country comparative work from other CWW researchers, and personnel of the United Nations, and of Colombian universities and government representatives.

The event was sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund, the Departamento Nacional de Planeación of Colombia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad los Andes, National Transfers Accounts, and Counting Women’s Work.

Click the links below to access video of the presentation and discussions:

• Introductions and Background

• Speakers

Presentation slides for each speaker can be accessed below:

• Alejandra Corchuelo (download)

• Paulo Saad (download)

• Pablo Salazar (download)

• Gretchen Donehower (download)

• B. Piedad Urdinola (download)

• Marisa Bucheli (download)

• Meritxell Sole Juves (download)

Public interest in CWW Costa Rica research

The University of Costa Rica TV Program "Espectro" interviewed CWW Costa Rica team leader Pamela Jiménez Fontana about unpaid work in Costa Rica and other topics covered by National Transfer Accounts and National Time Transfer Accounts. The video also includes a discussion with the Minister of Women's Affairs.

Symposium on valuing time use in Colombia

B. Piedad Urdinola and Jorge Tovar, co-directors of the National Time Transfer Accounts/Counting Women's Work research for Colombia, discussed results from the Colombian research. They were joined by other CWW personnel and other regional experts. The seminar took place from 8am to 1pm on June 1, 2016, at Auditorio Juan Herkrath Muller-Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogotá.

 The agenda can be downloaded here.

The video recording of the event can be viewed here.

Speakers for the event were:

• Gretchen Donehower, U.C. Berkeley (presentation)

• Edgar Marcillo, Departamento Nacional de Planeación-DNP (presentation)

• Pamela Jiménez Fontana, Centro Centroamericano de Población/Programa Estado de la Nación (presentation)

• B. Piedad Urdinola, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Bogotá (presentation)

• Estela Rivero, Investigación en Salud y Demografía-INSAD (presentation)

• Néstor González, Departamento Nacional de Planeación-DNP

• Iván Piraquive, Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística-DANE (presentation)

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The event flyers can be downloaded here (detailed) or here (overview).

Google Hangout: What do we learn by Counting Women's Work?

The Counting Women's Work project hosted a Google Hangout titled "What do we learn by Counting Women's Work?" on Thursday, April 21, 2016.

A recording of the Hangout is available on our YouTube Channel HERE

Moderator:

GRETCHEN DONEHOWER, University of California at Berkeley, Project Director, Counting Women’s Work 

Speakers include:

ELIANA RUBIANO MATULEVICH, World Bank, Gender Cross-Cutting Solutions Area

NANCY FOLBRE, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst  

PAMELA JIMÉNEZ-FONTANA, University of Costa Rica, Central American Population Center  

MORNÉ OOSTHUIZEN, University of Cape Town, Deputy Director, Development Policy Research Unit 

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The event flyers can be downloaded here (detailed) or here (overview).