Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria
Time use, or how women and men allocate their time, is an important element of empowerment processes. To extend this area of study, this article proposes and explores the concept of time-use agency, which shifts the focus from the amount of time individuals spend on activities to the strategic choic...
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| author | Eissler, Sarah Heckert, Jessica Myers, Emily Seymour, Greg Sinharoy, Sheela Yount, Kathryn |
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| description | Time use, or how women and men allocate their time, is an important element of empowerment processes. To extend this area of study, this article proposes and explores the concept of time-use agency, which shifts the focus from the amount of time individuals spend on activities to the strategic choices they make about how to allocate their time. It draws on 92 semi-structured interviews from three qualitative studies in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria to explore and compare the salience of time-use agency as a component of empowerment. The article finds that time-use agency is salient among women and men and dictates how they can make and act upon strategic decisions related to how they allocate their time. It also finds that time-use agency is tied to other dimensions of agency beyond decision making and ways of exerting influence in the household. Its findings highlight that women's capacity to exercise time-use agency is conditional on gendered power dynamics and other barriers within households, which together are reciprocally related to local gender norms that dictate how women should spend their time. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1412372025-10-26T13:02:31Z Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria Eissler, Sarah Heckert, Jessica Myers, Emily Seymour, Greg Sinharoy, Sheela Yount, Kathryn gender women's empowerment households interviews empowerment decision making qualitative analysis time gender relations Time use, or how women and men allocate their time, is an important element of empowerment processes. To extend this area of study, this article proposes and explores the concept of time-use agency, which shifts the focus from the amount of time individuals spend on activities to the strategic choices they make about how to allocate their time. It draws on 92 semi-structured interviews from three qualitative studies in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria to explore and compare the salience of time-use agency as a component of empowerment. The article finds that time-use agency is salient among women and men and dictates how they can make and act upon strategic decisions related to how they allocate their time. It also finds that time-use agency is tied to other dimensions of agency beyond decision making and ways of exerting influence in the household. Its findings highlight that women's capacity to exercise time-use agency is conditional on gendered power dynamics and other barriers within households, which together are reciprocally related to local gender norms that dictate how women should spend their time. 2022-09 2024-04-12T13:37:31Z 2024-04-12T13:37:31Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141237 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134275 Open Access Wiley Eissler, Sarah; Heckert, Jessica; Myers, Emily; Seymour, Greg; Sinharoy, Sheela; and Yount, Kathryn. 2022. Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria. Development and Change 53(5): 1010-1034. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12725 |
| spellingShingle | gender women's empowerment households interviews empowerment decision making qualitative analysis time gender relations Eissler, Sarah Heckert, Jessica Myers, Emily Seymour, Greg Sinharoy, Sheela Yount, Kathryn Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria |
| title | Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria |
| title_full | Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria |
| title_short | Measuring women's empowerment: Gender and time-use agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria |
| title_sort | measuring women s empowerment gender and time use agency in benin malawi and nigeria |
| topic | gender women's empowerment households interviews empowerment decision making qualitative analysis time gender relations |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141237 |
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