Signs of change: Evidence on women’s time use, identity, and subjective well-being in rural Bangladesh
We develop an analytical framework based on the work of Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and use it to examine how identity – proxied by agreement with statements reflecting patriarchal notions of gender roles – affects the trade-off between the time women spend on household and care work and their subjec...
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Africa Centre for Gender, Social Research and Impact Assessment
2021
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| author | Seymour, Greg Floro, Maria S. |
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| description | We develop an analytical framework based on the work of Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and use it to examine how identity – proxied by agreement with statements reflecting patriarchal notions of gender roles – affects the trade-off between the time women spend on household and care work and their subjective well-being. Analyzing household survey data from rural Bangladesh, we find that longer hours spent on household work are associated with lower levels of subjective well-being among women who hold egalitarian notions of gender roles, while the reverse is true for women who hold patriarchal notions of gender roles. Importantly, this pattern holds only when women strongly identify with patriarchal or egalitarian notions of gender roles. These findings provide insights into how social expectations govern gender roles and, specifically, how gender inequalities persist, at least in part, due to men’s and women’s internalization of traditional gender norms. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1427092025-12-08T10:06:44Z Signs of change: Evidence on women’s time use, identity, and subjective well-being in rural Bangladesh Seymour, Greg Floro, Maria S. time study gender households labour wellbeing identity rural areas gender analysis women We develop an analytical framework based on the work of Akerlof and Kranton (2000) and use it to examine how identity – proxied by agreement with statements reflecting patriarchal notions of gender roles – affects the trade-off between the time women spend on household and care work and their subjective well-being. Analyzing household survey data from rural Bangladesh, we find that longer hours spent on household work are associated with lower levels of subjective well-being among women who hold egalitarian notions of gender roles, while the reverse is true for women who hold patriarchal notions of gender roles. Importantly, this pattern holds only when women strongly identify with patriarchal or egalitarian notions of gender roles. These findings provide insights into how social expectations govern gender roles and, specifically, how gender inequalities persist, at least in part, due to men’s and women’s internalization of traditional gender norms. 2021-09-27 2024-05-22T12:10:55Z 2024-05-22T12:10:55Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142709 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147776 Open Access Africa Centre for Gender, Social Research and Impact Assessment Seymour, Greg; and Floro, Maria S. 2021. Signs of change: Evidence on women’s time use, identity, and subjective well-being in rural Bangladesh. Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security 6(1): 1-17. https://purl.umn.edu/338770 |
| spellingShingle | time study gender households labour wellbeing identity rural areas gender analysis women Seymour, Greg Floro, Maria S. Signs of change: Evidence on women’s time use, identity, and subjective well-being in rural Bangladesh |
| title | Signs of change: Evidence on women’s time use, identity, and subjective well-being in rural Bangladesh |
| title_full | Signs of change: Evidence on women’s time use, identity, and subjective well-being in rural Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | Signs of change: Evidence on women’s time use, identity, and subjective well-being in rural Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Signs of change: Evidence on women’s time use, identity, and subjective well-being in rural Bangladesh |
| title_short | Signs of change: Evidence on women’s time use, identity, and subjective well-being in rural Bangladesh |
| title_sort | signs of change evidence on women s time use identity and subjective well being in rural bangladesh |
| topic | time study gender households labour wellbeing identity rural areas gender analysis women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142709 |
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