This paper analyses the relationship between gender, time use and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. The volume analyses current research and surveys on time use in Africa as well as its impact on other development indicators. In addition, this volume presents a conceptual framework linking both market and household work, and use tools and approaches drawn from analysis of consumption based poverty to develop the concept of a time poverty line and to look at the relationship between time poverty, consumption poverty, and other dimensions of development such as education and child labour.