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Work less, help out more? The persistence of gender inequality in housework and childcare during UK Covid-19

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ID11680233
AutoresAnna Zamberlan (0000-0001-8615-5684, University of Trento, autor de correspondencia), Filippo Gioachin (0000-0003-3791-7085, University of Trento), Davide Gritti (0000-0001-9505-6565, University of Trento)
Año2021
Volumen73
Páginas100583-100583
Fecha de publicación2021-02-10
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaResearch in Social Stratification and Mobility (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0276-5624 • E-ISSN: 1878-5654
EditorialElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.rssm.2021.100583
OpenAlexW3129062355
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas56
Referencias citadas64

By leveraging the UK COVID-19 lockdown, this paper examines the impact of changes in paid working hours on gender inequality, specifically time devoted to housework and childcare. We compare potential outcomes of similar couples who only differed in partners’ losing (or maintaining) paid hours during the period from January/February 2020 to April 2020. We draw on wave 9 of the UK Household Longitudinal Study and the first wave of the Understanding Society COVID-19 study to evaluate competing hypotheses derived from time availability, relative resources and ‘doing gender’ perspectives. Following studies on the gendered division of unpaid labour, we also account for heterogeneous implications by analysing couples where partners’ relative contributions to household labour income differ by gender. Our empirical results indicate that both men and women who lost paid hours increased the time devoted to domestic chores, but gender inequality strikes back, especially after breadwinner women lose paid hours. Overall, this paper provides fruitful insights into how theories of gender inequality in the division of domestic tasks could benefit from research on labour market shocks

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Demographic economics · Division of labour · Domestic work · Economics · Gender equality · Gender inequality · Inequality · Labour economics · Paid work · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Sociology · Unpaid work · Wage · Work (physics · Working hours · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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