Zehba, Fathima MP;
Priya Rajendran, Lakshmi;
Firoz, Mohammed C;
(2025)
"Where Is the Time?": Time Poverty and Women's Urban Mobility Narratives in Kochi, India.
Urban Planning
, 10
, Article 9272. 10.17645/up.9272.
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Abstract
Time poverty disproportionately affects urban women due to the societal expectations of balancing their work and gender roles. In urban environments, women’s time use is significantly influenced by their daily mobility experiences. Despite a wealth of existing research on time use and mobility, mostly in developed countries, understanding gendered dimensions of mobility and time poverty in cities of developing nations remains unexplored. Using Tiznado Aitken et al.’s (2024) integrated time use framework, the study explores how necessary, committed, contracted, and travel time collectively shape the daily routines of low-income women workers in Kochi City, India. The method involves qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews conducted during December 2022–January 2023. Interview analysis highlights entrenched gender roles disproportionately burdening women with unpaid domestic and caregiving responsibilities, leading to severe time poverty among low-income working women. The study also identifies how time poverty is exacerbated by travel constraints and access to transport services. This study substantially strengthens the literature on time poverty and gendered time use, emphasising the necessity for institutional reforms to elevate the quality of life for urban women workers. The findings presented hold implications for urban planning, transportation policy, and social equity initiatives aimed at enhancing accessibility and inclusivity within cities of the Global South.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | "Where Is the Time?": Time Poverty and Women's Urban Mobility Narratives in Kochi, India |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.17645/up.9272 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.17645/up.9272 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © Fathima Zehba M. P., Lakshmi Priya Rajendran, Mohammed Firoz C.. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction of the work without further permission provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | gendered mobility; gendered time poverty; urban women; work–life balance |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10207704 |
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