CWW Working Paper No.3

Today we publish the third of the Counting Women's Work Working Papers. These working papers provide more detailed analysis than the Country Reports and are authored by the CWW country teams.

CWW Working Paper WP3 is by Eugenia Amporfu, Daniel Sakyi, Prince Boakye Frimpong, Eric Arthur and Jacob Novignon, and details the CWW research for Ghana. It is entitled: The Distribution of Paid and Unpaid Work among Men and Women in Ghana: The National Time Transfer Accounts Approach.

Infographic, Ghana

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 Ghana is shown below.

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

Counting Women's Work at 38th International Association for Time Use Research Conference

The Counting Women's Work project presented a special session at the 38th International Association of Time Use Research (IATUR) Conference, hosted in Seoul, South Korea, from 19 to 22 July 2016. The session was well received and provided a useful opportunity to engage more closely with the time-use research community.

The following presentations were made:

• Gretchen Donehower: Age and Gender in Time Use-Based Estimates of the Care Economy and Household Production

• Morne Oosthuizen: Counting Women's Work in South Africa

• Eugenia Amporfu: Measuring the Distribution of Housework among Men and Women in Ghana

• Lili Vargha: Household production and consumption over the lifecycle in Europe

• Estela Rivero: Intergenerational time transfers and time use in Mexico. A 2002-2014 comparison

NTA XI Conference

A number of country teams presented the research they have been conducting as part of the Counting Women's Work project at the 11th Global Meeting of the NTA Network in Dakar and Saly, Senegal, from 20 to 24 June 2016. Presentations included:

• Eugenia Amporfu, D.Sakyi, P.B. Frimpong, E.Arthur, J.Novignon, Measuring the Distribution of Housework among Men and Women in Ghana: The National Time Transfer Accounts Approach

• Nguyen Thi Lan Huong, Pham Ngoc Toan, and Pham Minh Thu, Using National Time Transfer Accounts Approach to Analyse Labor Income Gap by Gender in Vietnam

• Pamela Jiménez Fontana, Gender inequality on the intergenerational flows in Costa Rica

• Laishram Ladusingh, Wake Up India, Count Women's Work

• Oumy Laye and Latif Dramani, Trade off Between Labor Market and Domestic Market in Senegal

• Moses Muriithi, Reuben Mutegi, Germano Mwabu, The Incomes and Labor Supplies of Unpaid Family Workers in Kenya

• Morné Oosthuizen, Counting Women's Work in South Africa

• Estela Rivero, Changes in intrahousehold time transfers in Mexico between 2002 and 2014: What accounts for what?

Other presentations related to Counting Women's Work can be found here. One exciting development of the conference was that the group of West African countries involved in creating demographic dividend observatories would incorporate a gender perspective and time use analyses into those plans.

For more information about the NTA XI conference, please visit the conference site.