Mapping the literature on women’s unpaid work : A bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer

The role of women has transformed from primary caregivers to primary earners in the society. The growth of studies on women’s issues has been continuous research since decades. The research interest in unpaid work has seen increased collaboration, profound familiarity with influential authors, and access to relevant literature, especially for new researchers focusing on this issue. The present paper has performed a bibliometric analysis and maps the research landscape based on the published literature on women’s unpaid work, using R-biblioshiny program and VOS viewer software. It analyses, citation patterns authorship and affiliation and other parameters. The study is based on 1281 articles on women’s unpaid work drawn from the Scopus database, published between 2001and 2024.The study on women’s unpaid labour shows a rising trajectory with an increased volume of productive growth. More citations are from “Feminist Economics” journal, and identified 10 authors, the most co-cited cluster of researchers in the said field. The authors’ affiliations include prestigious institutions such as the University of Oxford, Flinders University, Stockholm University, and Australian National University. The study finds international collaboration more among authors from the USA, India, Australia, the U.K., Spain, Germany and Canada. The study has identified important keywords in the area, that includes “time poverty,” “parenthood,” “informal care,” “time allocation,” and “work-life balance.”