Women's time poverty in developing countries is often associated with the intra-household time allocation once they spend signicant time on domestic chores, such as collecting water and re wood. This paper investigates the time allocation of women in Ghana as a trade-off between domestic chores and market-oriented activities when households are provided with water and electricity infrastructure. Using a sample of rural individuals from the Ghana Living Standards Survey (Round Four), four models are estimated. First, we examine men and women's determinants of time allocation to total hours worked. Then we focus on women's use of time to the activities of fetching water, domestic work and market work. Assessing the overall hours worked, we nd that water infrastructure seems to be associated with a lesser work burden for rural women: hours devoted to domestic work is significantly lower for women in communities provided with piped water.It is not found, however, that the time women save on water collection would be devoted to market activities. On the other hand, the time spent on market activities signicantly increases when communities are provided with electricity infrastructure, especially for those women already engaged in market-oriented activities.