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

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.

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.

Counting Women's Work 5/24/18 Counting Women's Work 5/24/18

CWW Working Paper No.3

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.

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.

Counting Women's Work 5/23/18 Counting Women's Work 5/23/18

CWW Policy Brief No. 1

CWW Policy Brief No. 1 demonstrates the importance of CWW research for a number of policy areas in developing countries. It is entitled How “Counting Women’s Work” Matters: Evidence from the Global South.

The first publication in the Counting Women’s Work working paper series focuses on results across a diverse group of countries in the “global south.” The analysis demonstrates that unpaid care work is a huge part of economic activity in these countries. Recognizing and understanding this vast but usually ignored sector of the economy has implications for policies related to labor force participation, girls’ education, family policy, and human capital investment.

CWW Policy Brief No. 1 is entitled How “Counting Women’s Work” Matters: Evidence from the Global South and can be downloaded below.

Gretchen Donehower 4/10/18 Gretchen Donehower 4/10/18

CWW Colombia interviewed

Team members of Counting Women’s Work Colombia discussed their work on UN Radio, an online radio for the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Team members of Counting Women’s Work Colombia discussed their work on UN Radio, an online radio for the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Listen here.

Gretchen Donehower 3/1/18 Gretchen Donehower 3/1/18

CWW Research in Second National Transfer Accounts project Bulletin

This issue of the NTA Bulletin summarizes policy messages from Counting Women’s Work, highlighting how including unpaid care work in policy analysis creates better policy and emphasizing the need for more and better data on time use and unpaid care work.

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 has been the focus of two bulletins, the second published in March 2018. NTA Bulletin No. 13. reveals the vast amount of economic activity that is “invisible” because unpaid care work not usually counted as part of the economy despite its central role in producing the market labor force of the future and sustaining social welfare. The bulletin argues for the necessity of more and better data on time use and unpaid care work to improve many economic, family, and social policy.

Download NTA Bulletin No. 13 from the NTA website.

Gretchen Donehower 2/28/18 Gretchen Donehower 2/28/18

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

Counting Women's Work collaborated with a task force on Gender Economic Equity to make sure that discussions of women’s economic empowerment included evidence from both the market and household economies.

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:

Presentation slides for each speaker can be accessed below: