Time poverty
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Time poverty is the situation of not having enough discretionary time, as opposed to not having enough money or resources as in economic poverty. Time poverty is a result of time inequality, as a lack
Fragmented time can prevent immersion into an altered perception of time, such as a flow state, and is associated with higher feelings of time poverty.
Lack of clean energy and electrification lengthens committed time for women in developing countries.
A Djiboutian orphan prepares to hang his clothes to dry after washing them in the new washing machine donated by the Joint Service Community Assistance Volunteers during Combined Joint Task Force deployment.
Inequitable division of labor increases committed time and exacerbates gender differences in time poverty.
Double burden
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A double burden is the workload of people who work to earn money, but who are also responsible for significant amounts of unpaid domestic labor. This phenomenon is also known as the Second Shift as in
Time poverty
…likely to be time poor than men. The discrepancy may be due to the existence of a "second shift," coined in 1989 by Arlie Hochschild to describe the double burden many women face in performing the majority of housework, reproductive labor, after returning from work. The time burden from raising children falls…
A woman cooks, supervised by a teacher, in a domestic economy institute in Stockholm, Sweden. (1950)
Woman working while taking care of her child
Child care facility