TIME WAITS FOR NO (WO)MAN - AN INVESTIGATION OF THE GENDERED EXPERIENCE OF DOMESTIC TIME

Quite a lot is already known from the existing sociological literature about the overall time spent by women and men in different domestic t asks, but there is much less information available on more complex soc iologically-relevant facets of the experience of time, such as the soc ial context of activities, and the common combinations of different ac tivities. In this paper I use time-use diary data to focus upon three important aspects of the gendered experience of time. These are the so cial context of domestic tasks in relation to their (gendered) pattern s of management, the intensity or density of time-use involving combin ations of different activities, and the fragmentation of leisure time according to which activities are responsible for interrupting it. Ove rall these analyses support the conclusion that women's time is not on ly more pressured in terms of the intensity of domestic tasks, but tha t the more enjoyable aspects of their time, such as leisure time, tend to be more fragmented than that of men.