CWW Working Paper No. 4
This paper discusses the methodology used by researchers in the CWW project for constructing National Time Transfer Accounts (NTTA). The NTTAs measure the production and consumption of household production or unpaid care across the lifecycle, and the transfers across age groups implied by the patterns of these two flows.
This paper discusses the methodology used by researchers in the CWW project for constructing National Time Transfer Accounts (NTTA). The NTTAs measure the production and consumption of household production or unpaid care across the lifecycle, and the transfers across age groups implied by the patterns of these two flows.
CWW Working Paper WP4 is authored by Principal Investigator and Project Director Gretchen Donehower, and details the CWW methodology. The working paper, Measuring the Gendered Economy: Counting Women’s Work Methodology, can be downloaded below.
CWW Research in National Transfer Accounts project Bulletin
This issue of the NTA Bulletin features CWW research and describes the project and reports some illustrative results from Ghana, Mexico, Senegal, the United States, and Vietnam.
The Counting Women's Work was created in part to bring a gender perspective to the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) project, which produces a series of short bulletins showcasing project results and significance for policy. CWW research is the focus of NTA Bulletin No. 11. This issue of the NTA Bulletin describes the project and reports some illustrative results from Ghana, Mexico, Senegal, the United States, and Vietnam. These examples demonstrate how CWW analysis makes it possible to quantify the differences between men and women in market work and wages, the excess total work time that most women spend relative to men, the potential barrier that household responsibilities represent to women’s education and career development, and the “hidden” costs of children.
Download NTA Bulletin No. 11 from the NTA website.
Latin America Training
The Counting Women's Work training workshop for Latin American teams was held as a side meeting at the Sixth Congress of ALAP.
The Counting Women's Work training workshop for Latin American teams was held as a side meeting at the Sixth Congress of ALAP (La Asociacion Latinoamericana de Poblacion / Latin American Population Association) at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, from 11 to 13 August 2014. Latin American CWW country teams, as well as other country teams interested in the CWW research, attended. These include teams and representatives from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico. The slides used in the workshop are linked below.
Day 1: National Transfer Accounts by Sex
Day 2: National Time Transfer Accounts - Production
Asia Training Workshop
The Counting Women's Work training workshop for Asian teams was held at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i, from 14 to 17 July 2014. Asian CWW
The Counting Women's Work training workshop for Asian teams was held at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i, from 14 to 17 July 2014. Asian CWW country teams, as well as other country teams interested in the CWW research, attended, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Slides used in the workshop are linked below.
Africa Training Workshop
The first CWW training session took place from 12 to 16 May 2014 at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. This training workshop brought together the
The first CWW training session took place from 12 to 16 May 2014 at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. This training workshop brought together the various African country teams participating in the Counting Women's Work research, namely Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and South Africa.
Programme
Download the programme here. The slide decks from that training are posted below.
Lecture Slides:
01 Orientation
03 NTTA Production in Time Units
Saldru Seminar
Part of this workshop included a presentation as part of the SALDRU seminar series. SALDRU is the South African Labor and Development Research Unit, a part of the Department of Economics at the University of Cape Town. The slides from that presentation are available below.
NTA and CWW
Africa Launch Event
Many important economic and policy questions focus on gender. Are families and governments investing equally in girls and boys? How do men and women
Many important economic and policy questions focus on gender. Are families and governments investing equally in girls and boys? How do men and women contribute to the economy? What policies are needed to address gender discrimination in the home and the workplace?
The Counting Women’s Work (CWW) project, a world-wide research project designed to address these and other issues, was launched on May 15, 2014 at an event in Cape Town, South Africa. The project is part of the National Transfer Accounts research network, which has revealed how we produce, consume, share and save by age in countries around the world. Video of the event appears below.
The CWW project was formed to add gender to our understanding of the generational economy and to address a major flaw in economic accounting: national accounts include only market production, omitting unpaid household and care work often done by women and girls. The CWW project has therefore developed methodology to estimate economic flows for unpaid household and care work allowing us to conceptualise and estimate transfers of time as well as money.
Beginning in 2014, CWW has brought together researchers from countries around the world, including at least 6 African countries, to compile comprehensive estimates of the generational economy disaggregated by gender, including the value of unpaid time. Country-specific and comparative results will be extremely useful in formulating and evaluating policies aimed at reducing inequalities typically suffered by women and girls.
The Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town hosted African country research teams from Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and South Africa at the launch of the Counting Women’s Work research in Africa.
Download event flyer here.
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