ABSTRACT

Even if women participate in the labor market, both in developing and developed countries, they still spend more time for unpaid work than their partners, which is usually dictated as a result of the sexual division of labor within households. This demonstrates that, if poverty taken to mean not only in terms of income but also “the inadequacy of leisure time”, even women with professional jobs who do not live in income poverty can experience time poverty. This study aims to investigate whether there is a gender-based discrimination in terms of distribution of paid and unpaid work within household, and questions whether the outcome has a relationship both with poverty and patriarchal structures. For this purpose, a questionnaire was conducted to 182 married couples with children that have different income, education levels and labor market experience, in the central district of Muğla, Turkey. According to the results of the research, at every level of education, income and age women spend less time for unpaid work and more time for paid work than their partners, whether participate or not to the labor market. That’s why “time poverty” is becoming more visible for working women who spend more time for unpaid work than their partners