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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 …
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Gender inequality is much more than wage gaps. Indeed, one interesting case is how individuals allocate time among … different activities such as paid work, unpaid work and domestic work. This paper aims to quantify gender inequality in the time … use in unpaid care and home activities and to investigate the main drivers of gender gaps in Colombia using the National …
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gender division of housework may be due to cultural differences. We find that the higher the culture of gender equality in … of gender equality is associated with greater probability that individuals report performing housework when they are with …In this paper, we examine whether culture plays a role in the gender division of household labor. To explore this issue …
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and housework more than men. Neither the gender gaps in COVID-19-related health and economic concerns nor the gender gaps …We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020 … in the increase in hours of childcare and housework can be accounted for by a rich set of control variables. Instead, we …
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further deepened existing inequalities along several dimensions, including gender. Increasing gender inequalities in paid and … unpaid work has been a primary outcome of the pandemic and the associated economic crisis. Given the disproportionate gender … of widening the gender inequalities in the labor market. While these outcomes point to the threat that Covid-19 poses at …
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We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the … COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with … WFH being more prevalent among women than among men. Respondents' job traits played a significant role in the gender gap …
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gender neutral. Given the large pre-existing gender gaps in employment, in absolute terms, more men lost employment than … employed than men who were employed pre-lockdown. India has amongst the most unequal gender division of household work globally … housework per day increased post-lockdown. This seems to be driven by increased male unemployment. The time spent with friends …
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considering transitions into and out of employment, with no gender differential effect. …
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Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender … the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender …
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I examine the incidence and determinants of the gender income gap in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan … substantively large gender income gap (favoring males) in all six countries; (2) some evidence of a gender-related glass ceiling in … decreasing the gender income gap in these former formally gender neutral economies-notably through attention towards the …
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