work done by parents. There is much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in … parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany we present an empirical analysis that shows greater support for … couples where the mother is left completely or almost completely alone with the care work. We see only small increases in the …

(pairfam) measuring underlying work-care norms for a couple with a 15-month-old child under different contextual conditions … fathers by about 1 hour per week. Respondents who hold more egalitarian gender beliefs, those with tertiary education, native …

Employment among mothers has been rising in recent decades, although mothers of young children often work fewer hours … than other women do. Parallel to this trend, approval of maternal employment has increased, albeit not evenly across groups … behaviour. Meanwhile, the employment of fathers has remained stable and attitudes towards paternal employment do not differ as …

addition, we explore to what extent cross-country differences in socio-demographic characteristics and parents' employment … explained by differences in socio-demographic characteristics and employment status across countries in Europe. For three …

likely to participate in the labour force, work longer hours, and earn higher labour income. Our study can assess a variety …