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Time use and gender in Africa. The changing nature of work for women

As an economy develops, more women take jobs outside the home. To what extent is this change happening in Africa, what factors slow this transformation down, and what could encourage it?

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Dinkelman, T and Ngai, L. 2021. 'Time Use and Gender in Africa in Times of Structural Transformation [1]'. CEPR

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Topics:  Development [5] Gender [6]

Tags:  Africa [7], home production [8], structural transformation [9], time use [10], work [11]

Source URL: https://voxeu.org/content/time-use-and-gender-africa-changing-nature-work-women

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[1] https://cepr.online/time-gender
[2] https://voxeu.org/article/structural-transformation-era-global-agricultural-value-chains
[3] https://voxeu.org/article/africa-s-latent-assets
[4] https://voxeu.org/article/gender-discrimination-versus-market-competition-india
[5] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/development
[6] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/gender
[7] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/152
[8] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/10383
[9] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/2553
[10] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/12816
[11] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/3485