stdClass Object ( [id] => 16337 [paper_index] => 202505-01-022097 [title] => MEASURING WOMEN'S UNPAID WORK: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON TIME ALLOCATION STUDIES IN INDIA [description] => [author] => Galo Miwu, Dr. Sanchari Roy Mukherjee [googlescholar] => [doi] => https://doi.org/10.36713/epra22097 [year] => 2025 [month] => May [volume] => 11 [issue] => 5 [file] => fm/jpanel/upload/2025/June/202505-01-022097.pdf [abstract] => Unpaid work is a key element of successful endeavours and essential to household and economic well-being. Yet, policies and measurements need to consider that women comprise more than half of the domestic work population, leading to their economic invisibility. This review gives insight from various literatures on time allocation studies in rural agrarian India focusing on measuring women's unpaid work. The research done over several decades is summarized in this report, providing a comprehensive analysis of the existing methodologies and trends ranging from time-use surveys to qualitative interviews and ethnographic studies, emphasizing the significance of combining both quantitative and qualitative methods to represent the complex nature of women's unpaid labour fully, accounting for variations across regions, socioeconomic strata, and cultures. This review shows a gap in our understanding of how women allocate their time in India. It also gives various sources regarding the activities included in NSSO and other data sources as recognition to value women's unpaid work in terms of time expended on domestic and agricultural work. The findings are significant for policy implication in the context of gender equality, economic development, and social well-being, and it is imperative to identify the importance of recognizing women's unpaid work, devising strategies to tackle gender disparity, boosting female economic Empowerment, and promoting the overall welfare of women. [keywords] => Rural Women, Unpaid Work, Economic Invisibility, Time Use Surveys, Gender Parity [doj] => 2025-06-02 [hit] => [status] => [award_status] => P [orderr] => 221 [journal_id] => 1 [googlesearch_link] => [edit_on] => [is_status] => 1 [journalname] => EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (IJMR) [short_code] => IJMR [eissn] => 2455-3662 (Online) [pissn] => - -- [home_page_wrapper] => images/products_image/11.IJMR.png ) Error fetching PDF file.