Time Poverty Quiz

The gender chore gap refers to the fact that women and men ________.

• spend less time than children doing paid work

• don’t spend the same amount of time on unpaid work

• spend less money on clothing today than in the past

• have more hours in a day in some parts of the world

Where does the gender chore gap exist?

• in India, Tanzania, and Turkey

• in the US and Australia

• in Sweden and Denmark

• all of the above

Around the world, men spend more time than women on which of the following tasks or activities?

• doing paid work

• eating

• exercising

• doing household chores

Based on the descriptions, which of the following women is experiencing time poverty?

• Isabel works as a doctor. She would like to earn more money so she can retire in a few years and move to live near her grandchildren.

• Deborah catches and sells fish. This is a task traditionally done by men in her community.

• Leyla spends 14 hours a day working on paid and unpaid tasks. If she worked any less, her family would not have enough food or clean water.

• Amina and her husband Isaac work as lawyers and have a 3 month-old daughter. Amina changes more diapers than Isaac does.

How could closing the gender chore gap affect India’s economy?

• Women could make more money, increasing India’s GDP.

• All men would have to stop working, decreasing India’s GDP.

• Unemployment in India would increase.

• The price of food in India would decrease.

In a family where men’s and women’s time is valued equally, what would most likely be true?

• Children would be responsible for all the chores.

• The adults in the family would decide together how to share paid and unpaid tasks.

• No one would challenge traditional gender roles or social norms.

• Men would always travel farther than women to and from work.

What’s one way that closing the gender chore gap could affect women?

• Women would have more time to invest in their education, careers and other opportunities.

• Women would be too busy to invest in their education or career opportunities.

• Women would get married at younger ages.

• Closing the gender chore gap would not affect women.

How can technology help solve the issue of time poverty?

• Technology can make time move slower for women.

• Technology can help more children earn allowance by reminding them to do their chores.

• Technology can make some chores much quicker.

• Technology cannot help solve the issue of time poverty.

Which of the following technologies would have the greatest impact on how women in low-income countries spend their time?

• a mobile phone app that displays the local market price for goods

• an efficient stoves that requires little or no firewood

• a smartwatch that receives text messages and emails

• computers that detect irregular heartbeats and diagnose heart disease

In these descriptions, which of the following men is helping to close the gender chore gap?

• Zakaria encourages his daughter to play with dolls and building blocks.

• When Billy and his girlfriend decide to go on vacation, Billy does all the planning for the trip.

• Akhmed tells his wife he will take their sick son to the doctor’s office so she doesn’t have to miss work.

• Jorge works as a lawyer and expects his wife to do all the housework.