NLS Faculty Seminar | ‘Women’s Time Use Between Paid and Unpaid Work in India’

At this week’s faculty seminar, Dr. Vijayamba R, Assistant Professor of Social Science, NLSIU will present a paper titled, ‘Women’s Time Use between Paid and Unpaid Work in India,’ that she has co-authored with Rosa Abraham and Srinivas Raghavendra from Azim Premji University.

Abstract

Women engage in a predominant share of unpaid work leaving less time for employment and leisure. This paper asks if engagement in employment results in an offsetting reduction on unpaid work across different levels of education and types of employment. We use the Time Use Survey of India (TUS 2019) to identify self-employment and wage employment from the International Classification of Activities for Time Use Statistics (ICATUS 2016). We find that for women engaged in self-employment, there is a slight trade off with unpaid work, whereas urban graduate women face an increased burden of unpaid work.