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Author:   Rachel Connelly ,  Ebru Kongar
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Weight:   7.828kg
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9781137568366

ISBN 10:   1137568364
Pages:   505
Publication Date:   11 July 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Feminist Approaches to Time Use; Rachel Connelly and Ebru KongarPART I: Gender, Time Use, and the Macroeconomy2. Unpaid Work in Macroeconomics: A Stocktaking Exercise; İpek İlkkaracan3. The Challenge of Austerity For Gender Equality In Europe; Maria Karamessini, Jill Rubery4. Women, Recession, and Austerity; Lourdes Benería5. Paid and Unpaid Work Time by Labor Force Status of Prime Age Women and Men in Canada; Fiona MacPhail6. Gender, Socieconomic Status, Time-Use, and the Great Recession in the U.S.; Ebru Kongar, Mark Price7. Time and Income Poverty in the Case of Buenos Aires; Rania Antonopoulos, Valeria Esquivel, Thomas Masterson, Ajit Zacharias8. The Dual Problem of Unemployment and Time Poverty in South Africa; Maria Sagrario Floro, Abhilasha Srivastava9. Women and the Urban Economy in India; Smriti RaoPART II: The Microeconomics of Gendered Time Use - The Intersectionality of Care Work, Labor Market Work, and Housework10. The Challenge of “Indirect Care”; Julie Nelson11. Caregiving by Older Adults in the United States; Charlene Kalenkoski12. Division of Workforce and Domestic Labor among Same-Sex Couples; Esther Rothblum13. Double Shift, Double Balance: Housework in the Presence of Children in the United States; Deborah S. DeGraff, Rebecca Centanni14. How Do Caregiving Responsibilities Shape the Time Use of Women and Men in Rural China?; Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Rachel Connelly15. Gendered Patterns of Time Use over the Life Cycle in Turkey; Ebru Kongar, Emel Memiş16. Environmental Chores, Household Time Use, and Gender in Rural Tanzania; Deborah S. DeGraff, Deborah Levison, Esther W. Dungumaro17. Gender Divisions in the Real Time of the Elderly in South Africa; Dorrit Posel, Erofili Grapsa18. Is it Just Too Hard? Gender Time Symmetry in Market and Nonmarket Work and Subjective Time Pressure in Australia, Finland, and Korea; Lyn Craig, Judith E. Brown, Lyndall Strazdins, Jiweon Jun

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Rachel Connelly is the Bion R. Cram Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College, USA. Her recent research examines time use in the US, particularly as it relates to child caregiving, and the relationships between family structure, age, migration, and time use in China. She is an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics. Ebru Kongar is Associate Professor of Economics at Dickinson College, USA. Her research focuses on the gendered time use and labor market outcomes of macroeconomic developments, such as deindustrialization, offshoring, and the Great Recession in the US economy. She is an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics. Contributor Affiliations:Rania Antonopoulos, Alternate Minister for Labour, Greece; Levy Economics Institute, USALourdes Benería, Cornell University, USAJudith E. Brown, University of New South Wales, AustraliaRebecca M. Centanni, Analysis Group, Boston, USALyn Craig, University of New South Wales, AustraliaDeborah S. DeGraff, Bowdoin College, USAEsther W. Dungumaro, University of Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaValeria Esquivel, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsMaria S. Floro, American University, USAErofili Grapsa, Rhodes University, South Africaİpek İlkkaracan, Istanbul Technical University, TurkeyJiweon Jun, University of Oxford, UKCharlene Kalenkoski, Texas Tech University, USADeborah Levison, University of Minnesota, USAFiona MacPhail, University of Northern British Columbia, CanadaThomas Masterson, Levy Economics Institute, USAMargaret Maurer-Fazio, Bates College, USAEmel Memiş, Ankara University, TurkeyJulie A. Nelson, University of Massachusetts Boston, USADorrit Posel, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaMark Price, Keystone Research Center, USASmriti Rao, Assumption College, USAEsther D. Rothblum, San Diego State University, USAJill Rubery, European Work and Employment Research Centre, UKAbhilasha Srivastava, American University, USALyndall Strazdins, The Australian National University, AustraliaAjit Zacharias, Levy Economics Institute, USA

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