Women’s Economic Participation, Time Use, and Access to Childcare in Urban Bangladesh

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Women’s Economic Participation, Time Use, and Access to Childcare in Urban Bangladesh

dc.contributor.author	Tas, Emcet O.
dc.contributor.author	Ahmed, Tanima
dc.date.accessioned	2021-07-29T12:27:17Z
dc.date.available	2021-07-29T12:27:17Z
dc.date.issued	2021-07
dc.description.abstract	This study documents the labor market outcomes and time-use patterns of women in urban Bangladesh. Using survey data collected in 2018 in low-income neighborhoods of Dhaka, the paper finds that women with children aged 0–5 years have lower likelihood of labor market participation, lower likelihood of working, and lower likelihood of being an earner, compared to women with no children and women with children aged 6 years or older. While this motherhood penalty affects all mothers, those who have young children but have no access to childcare support face the largest penalty. Time-use patterns confirm these findings, indicating that mothers of young children with no access to childcare spend less time on market work, more time on unpaid work, and less time on leisure or other activities. In addition, they are more likely to perform childcare as a secondary activity along with other paid and unpaid work, which may have implications for their productivity and the quality of care provided to children. The paper proposes entry points to ease the double burden of paid and unpaid care work on mothers in urban areas, where the availability and affordability of formal childcare services is low, and community-based or other informal care arrangements are not common.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/615251627311387137/Women-s-Economic-Participation-Time-Use-and-Access-to-Childcare-in-Urban-Bangladesh
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-9735
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/36035
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9735
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
dc.subject	CHILDCARE
dc.subject	TIME USE
dc.subject	SECONDARY CHILDCARE
dc.subject	LABOR MARKET
dc.title	Women’s Economic Participation, Time Use, and Access to Childcare in Urban Bangladesh	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Women's Economic Participation, Time use, and Access to Childcare in Urban Bangladesh
okr.date.disclosure	2021-07-26
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-04-10T11:08:33.069079Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/615251627311387137/Women-s-Economic-Participation-Time-Use-and-Access-to-Childcare-in-Urban-Bangladesh
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-9735
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okr.region.administrative	South Asia
okr.region.country	Bangladesh
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Development
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Access of Poor to Social Services
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Labor Policies
okr.topic	Social Development::Social Inclusion & Institutions
okr.unit	Social Sustainability and Inclusion Global Practice
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