Intro: time use data
DRM asks participants to systematically recall the events of this specific time period.
The Question: What is the previous day?
Robinson & Martin (2012) say time is a "zero-sum" resource, meaning it is the ultimate social indicator bc, everyone has exactly this much of it
The Question: What is 24 hours (or 1,440 minutes)?
Shaw used this research tool
The Question: What are time diaries (with situational ratings)?
The multi-decade narrowing of the gap between men’s and women’s time spent on housework
The Question: What is gender convergence in housework?
The deficit of discretionary time remaining after an you complete all necessary and committed activities.
The Question: What is time poverty?
this requires participants to stop what they are doing and immediately report their current feelings
The Question: What is the Experience Sampling Method (ESM)?
By recording these, the time-diary method provides a more accurate picture of total effort than "primary activity" logs alone.
What are secondary activities (or multitasking)?
Shaw says this perspective is the most useful for examining the meaning of leisure.
The Question: What is 'interactionist' perspective?
This theory holds that the partner w higher income/education does LESS housework due to greater bargaining power.
What is Relative Resources theory?
This view holds that debt is a burden that forces students into paid work, reducing study time The
Question: What is the Liability Hypothesis?
Regarding this, why does Robinson suggest a 24hr diary is easier to do, compared to a weekly estimation?
What is "Participant Burden"?
These two dimensions were important in defining an activity as "leisure"
The Question: What are enjoyment and freedom of choice?
This phrase notes that women’s workforce participation hasn't been matched by an equal increase in men's domestic work.
The Question: What is the stalled revolution?
This term describes the mismatch where people feel increasingly rushed, even when data show increased total leisure time.
Question: What is the "Time-Squeeze" (or the Productivity Paradox)?
Since the 1960s, this specific activity has absorbed the vast majority of the "free time" gains
The Question: What is television viewing (or media consumption)?
Robinson says time is the only resource that's distributed with perfect equality across all individuals, regardless of their____
What is social class?
women often categorized these common domestic tasks as "work," even if they were unpaid tasks
The Question: What are childcare and housework?
This explains why women feel pressure even when a partner helps, as they still retain the "cognitive" responsibility for the home.
What is mental labour?
This hypothesis predicts that men and women are equally strained by housework time since gender roles have become more egalitarian
What is "the equal burdens" hypothesis?
This term describes the combination of paid labour and unpaid domestic work
The Question: What is total work?
This federal body has been the primary source of Canadian time-use data since 1986.
What is Statistics Canada, or the General Social Survey?
Shaw: instead of a specific activity or a block of time, leisure is actually this internal "state of mind."
What is the subjective meaning of leisure?
Milkie et al: Housework time associated w feeling stressed for women only supports this hypothesis
What is the "wives' burdens" hypothesis?
This transportation barrier describes how lack of reliable transit/car access forces the time-poor to spend time moving from place to place.
The Question: What is transit-induced time poverty?