Latest Paper: Gender gap in housework time: how much do individual resources actually matter?
ABSTRACT Using data from the 2003–2019 American Time Use Survey Extract (ATUS-X), we analyze the gender gap among heterosexual married…
Latest Paper: Exploring daily time-use patterns: ATUS-X data extractor and online diary visualization tool
Abstract Time-use data can often be perceived as inaccessible by non-specialists due to their unique format. This article introduces the…
Optimal Matching Algorithm Interactive App for Social Scientists
Some of us that started sequence analysis probably always wondered how the optimal matching (Needleman-Wunsch, Levenshtein, global alignment) algorithm works….
Policy Engagement (Stakeholder Management Tool)
How many of us, academics, know which policymakers to contact when we have fantastic findings? Most social research has the…
All work and no play makes up gender inequality
This week, I have been busy with work often returning home after 7pm. Sometimes, other things also interfered—doing sports or…
Taiwan Time Use: Focus on Housework and Care Activities
I stumbled upon the wonderful visualizations of ATUS by Nathan Yau and Team Triple Treat, and decided to run similar…
Taiwan: Paid and Unpaid Work Trends
The gender gap is said to be closing both in paid and unpaid work. Often, it means that women increase…
What are the differences between routine and non-routine housework in time use data?
Kamila Kolpashnikova | Камила Колпашникова, 8 December 2018 While some housework tasks are done routinely, others are not. For…
How much time do Americans actually spend on housework?
Kamila Kolpashnikova | Камила Колпашникова, 1 December 2018 It is not a secret that most of housework is done…