This article analyses the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … division of labour. It identifies and analyses cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …

Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In … particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework may be explained by differences in preferences deriving from … differences in gender identity between men and women. We find little evidence of any systematic gender differences in the …

industrialized countries, we hint at the existence of a threshold ratio of gender equity in the distribution of domestic work that …

the gender gaps in paid and unpaid work through the lockdown and recovery phases. The first month of the national lockdown … lower than that for men, compared to the pre-pandemic period. Men spent more time on housework in April 2020, but by August …

We infer the role of gender identity norms from the reallocation of childcare across parents, following changes in …

gender equal countries. Analyzing Swedish population register data, we do not find support for the norm that a man should …

distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender …

work done by parents. There is much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in …

work from home. The lockdown led to a large increase in childcare and housework, given the closing of schools and the … inability to outsource. We find that men increased their participation in housework and childcare slightly, but most of the … burden fell on women, who were already doing most of the housework before the lockdown. Overall, we find that the covid-19 …