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WorksheetsTime Poverty
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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
in all of these places
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.
