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NEW PUBLICATION - Who Works at Home? Leisure and Unpaid Work Across Gender and Income Quartiles

  • HDRI
  • Sep 24
  • 1 min read

Updated: Oct 20


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Our latest essay aims to explore how income levels affect allocations of leisure time between Men and Women.


By splitting leisure time into true leisure vs household duties and care roles, it seeks  to highlight clear distinctions in allocations of time by gender and income quartiles. Using data from the American Time Use Survey,  we analyse statistical trends before exploring the policy implications of these findings and situating them in the current literature. After running t-tests and plotting differences in mean time allocations across income levels, we find that any deficit in paid labour time between men and women is more than compensated for by additional time women spend on household chores and care work.

Men across income quartiles enjoy greater amounts of true leisure time,  whilst employed women face the double burden of labour and household work expectations.


Our findings suggest a persistent, albeit narrowing, gap in leisure time use between men and women.


By: Frances Douglas Thomson

Edited by: Denis Hortea


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