Navigating Time Poverty: Understanding the Challenges Faced by Women in Developing Countries
Keywords:
Gender inequality, Time poverty, Labor force participation, Sustainable Development Goals, Income inequalityAbstract
In this paper, gender inequality is focused. Basically, the social issues have been highlighted which hinders women to participate in labor-force. Through the intensive literature review, the causes of social issues have been highlighted. If we focus on labor-force participation rate then we can get to know that, where men make up 80% of the workforce globally and women barely exceed 50%. Conditions of women in all over the developing countries have been highlighted here. Generally, it is found that one of the cause of gender inequality is ‘time poverty for girls’. Time poverty describes a condition in which people, particularly females, have a restricted amount of time because of many responsibilities and commitments, leaving them with little time for goal-setting, personal growth, education, and leisure activities. There has many reasons like demand sided and supply sided problems regarding job participations but time poverty is something which is supply sided problem. If we focus on developing nations then this problem common. This time poverty becomes a reason of income inequality and chronic poverty, which hinders the growth of developing countries.
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