Such work is unpaid, consumes a lot of the women's daily discretionary time, and significantly reduces their power of having a voice in the political sphere (Kabeer, 1999). Industrialisation and the subsequent affordability of improved household technologies facilitate women's entry into the labour market, thus opening up new opportunities in favour of inclusive development (Becker, 1965, Woersdorfer, 2017). Studies suggest that technological progress may account for over half of the observed rise in the labour force participation rate of females in the US between 1900 and 1980 (Greenwood et al.,