Investing in Women and Girls for a Gender Dividend - PRB Blog

"Investing in Women and Girls for a Gender Dividend", by Kate Belohlav, Population Reference Bureau, cites work presented by CWW Project Director, Gretchen Donehower, at the panel on Women's Economic Empowerment and Sustainable Development, hosted by the Population Reference Bureau, the World Bank, and the Population and Poverty Research Initiative (PopPov) in March 2016.

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).

Infographic, Senegal

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 Senegal is shown below.

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

Intergenerational money and time transfers by gender in Spain: Who are the actual dependents?

Rentería, E., Scandurra, R., Souto, G., and Patxot, C. (2016). "Intergenerational money and time transfers by gender in Spain: Who are the actual dependants?" Demographic Research, 34: 689-704.

ABSTRACT:

Background: The analysis of intergenerational transfers can shed light on the interaction between population age structure and welfare. Nevertheless, a thorough examination of this issue requires consideration of both monetary (market) and time (non-market) transfers.

Objective: We analyse market and non-market production, consumption, and transfers by age and gender for Spain from 2009−2010 using National (Time) Transfer Accounts (NTA and NTTA) methodology.

Methods: Using National Accounts, microdata from different surveys, and the Time Use Survey, we estimate age and sex-specific profiles of monetary and time production and consumption for Spain. Consequently, a surplus or deficit and the resulting transfers are obtained.

Results: We observe higher labour income for men with respect to women throughout the age profile. Nevertheless, women spend more hours in total (market and non-market activities) than men. This division drives an asymmetry in private transfers. While men are net donors of money to other age groups during their working life, women are net donors of time to other household members (mainly children and their partners) over their lives.

Conclusions: The inclusion of the non-market economy in the analysis of intergenerational transfers is crucial to observe real inequalities between genders throughout the life cycle. This challenges the ‘economic dependency’ of women based on a market economy. The results suggest that the public sector in Spain should reinforce policies that take into account women’s contribution to the welfare of other population groups, and call for policies that reconcile professional and family obligations.

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).

CWW research at 2016 UN Commission on the Status of Women

CWW Project Director, Gretchen Donehower, was a speaker at an event titled "Women's Economic Empowerment and Sustainable Development: Exploring the Evidence, Intersections, and Outcomes", hosted by the World Bank, the Population Reference Bureau, and the Population and Poverty Research Network. The symposium was a side-event to the 60th meeting of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women and took place in New York in the United States on March 15, 2016.

Slides from Dr. Donehower’s presentation are available here.