Doing and Achieving Gender: Visualizations and New Methods in Time Use Research
Time-use research offers a powerful lens through which to examine how individuals—women and men alike—allocate their time across daily activities, revealing crucial insights into social, economic, and behavioral inequalities. Drawing on the American Time Use Survey Extract Builder (ATUS-X), this talk will highlight how we can visualize the gendered dimensions of time allocation, with potential applications ranging from policy-making to workplace reform advocacy.
The talk will discuss new methods for visualizing time-use data, including tempograms, transition diagrams, and activity flow paths, to generate clear and compelling visual narratives of daily time patterns—particularly those that underscore gender gaps in paid and unpaid work, caregiving, and leisure activities.