Time and Technology: a gender approach for the Portuguese context

Reference: PIHM/GC/0037/2008

Research coordinator: Maria Johanna Schouten (UBI/CICS-UM)

Team: Emília Rodrigues Araújo (CICS-UM), Maria João Simões (CICS/UBI), Amélia Cavaca Augusto (UBI), Maria Helena Carvalho e Sousa (CECS-UM)

External Consultants: Anke Niehof (University of Wageningen), Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Margarida Chagas Lopes (ISEG-UTL)

Proposing Institution: UBI

Partner Institutions: CICS-UM

Funding Institution: FCT

Objectives: To characterise the use of time and technology according to gender – taking into account the following factors: I) socio-demographic profile of the family (age, employment status, household composition and lifestyle); II) type and role of technology in this family (the reasons for having certain types of equipment, the use and functionality attributed to technological equipment): to provide biographical and micro-sociological analyses, to understand the patterns of use of time and technology according to the type of relationship between men and women within the household; to contribute to the advancement of knowledge about the nature and implications of the use of technology in the domestic domain and its gendered character; to produce data supporting policies that promote greater equality of opportunities between men and women in the public sphere (in particular regarding to work and political participation).

Keywords: Gender, technology, time, private and family life conciliation

Institutional Link: http://www.tempotecnologiagenero.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1&lang=en

Duration: 2009 – 2011