This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal … the pandemic. Using data on gender role attitudes from 2008 through 2021, we find that fathers' egalitarian attitudes … suggest that the pandemic not only affected the short-term allocation of housework and childcare, but also reversed recent …

Despite changing gender norms, few fathers decide to take parental leave after the birth of a child, and when they do …

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

share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done …The COVID19 pandemic has caused shocks to the demand for home childcare (with the closure of schools and nurseries) and … the supply of home childcare (with many people not working). We collect real-time data on daily lives to document that UK …

by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased childcare responsibilities caused a sharp decline in mothers … progress in narrowing the employment gender gap. …

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 … crisis appears to have increased gender inequalities in both paid and unpaid work in the short-term. …

fathers by about 1 hour per week. Respondents who hold more egalitarian gender beliefs, those with tertiary education, native …

few mothers indicate that they would start working if better access to formal childcare were available. Switching to the …

, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled …

data on all Dutch employees up to 30 June 2020, focussing on the national lockdown and the emergency childcare for … as others, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, single-parent essential workers experience relatively … large negative labour supply effects, suggesting emergency childcare was not sufficient for this group. However, overall …