 Unequal Sharing of Domestic Work: A Time Use Study of Farm Households in Western Uttar PradeshIndian Journal of Gender Studies, 2017, vol. 24, issue 3, 341-359 Abstract: The article examines the issue of unpaid work and sharing of work between male and female family members in cultivating households on the basis of a field survey of 240 farm households in two districts in the agriculturally developed western region of Uttar Pradesh. The study reveals that women’s total workload was much higher than that of men. The pattern of work and time use have hardly changed. The burden of domestic work and care basically falls on women of the household. The participation of men in these activities is nominal. Women’s contribution to farm activities is significant, and further, they do most of the work in animal husbandry. Consequently, they have much less time for leisure and sleep. Our study highlights the permanence of traditional intra-household gender disparities in the distribution of work within the household. These values are transferred to the next generation as young girls are expected to help their mothers in carrying out domestic duties and care work, while boys have no such obligation. Keywords: Unpaid work; SNA and extended-SNA work; work participation rate; time use survey; women and farm labour (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:indgen:v:24:y:2017:i:3:p:341-359 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Indian Journal of Gender Studies from Centre for Women's Development Studies |
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