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 …

This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on … individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and child care, and the gender gaps in these activities, but most research refers to … single countries, and general patterns are rarely explored. Cross-country evidence on gender gaps in paid work, unpaid work …

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 …

Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income … within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We … find that households in which the woman contributes more to the total household income are more likely to share housework …

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 …

This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance …-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP … gender gap in PP. However, this is not what we find. After controlling for observable differences in individual and job …

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 …