01351nam a22001457a 4500 533996 533996 260731b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Lubna, A.P. and Ratheesh, C. 62243 Does the use of home appliances reduce women’s double Burden of work A study on working women in Malappurma district of Kerala Social Science in Perspective 18(2), Apr-Jun, 2026: p.222-241 The study examines where the usage of labour saving home appliances in unpaid domestic work reduces the double burden of work facing the working women in the Malappuram district of Kerala. Primary data is used to understand the rural urban differences in working women’s time allocation and the extent of labour saving technology used in unpaid work. The findings reveal that urban women use labour saving devise slightly more intensively than rural women, but does not significantly reduce their time allocation on unpaid domestic and care work. The working women face the problem of maintaining the work life balance. They compromised the time used for leisure, social time, and personal care to perform both paid and unpaid housework. – Reproduced Working women, paid work, Unpaid household work, Time use, Labour-saving devices. 62244 Social Science in Perspective AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 409180 IIPA IIPA 2026-07-31 18(2), Apr-Jun, 2026: p.222-241 AR139436 2026-07-31 AR