, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework … satisfaction based on predicted and residual housework time. We find that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected …The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further …

two-hour increase in housework time for each partner upon marriage, with women specializing in routine, and men … housework time between single and married individuals is causal and how much is due to selection. Using longitudinal data from … explain about half of the observed differences in housework documented in the cross-sectional data. There remains a genuine …

A central component of his theory of marriage Becker's Demand and Supply (D&S) models of marriage are also among the … of men to women in marriage markets – on individual consumption of married men and women, and indicate some of the ways … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage …

facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women's total work is … countries on four continents there is no difference - men and women do the same amount of total work. This latter fact has been …, macroeconomists, the general public and sociologists are unaware of it and instead believe that women perform more total work. The …

those continuing to work at their usual place of work, all of the women surveyed spend more time on housework than before …Evidence from past economic crises indicates that recessions often affect men's and women's employment differently …. Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the effect …

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

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

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 …

burden fell on women, who were already doing most of the housework before the lockdown. Overall, we find that the covid-19 … particularly hard.Women were slightly more likely to lose their job than men, and those who remained employed were more likely to … work from home. The lockdown led to a large increase in childcare and housework, given the closing of schools and the …