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 …

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 …

There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum’s Global …

childcare. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by women. Yet, the rise in remote working also has the potential to … increase paternal involvement in family life and thus to reduce gender role inequalities. This effect depends on the working …

We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020 … that, between earlier in 2020 before the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and June 2020, women had increased childcare … and housework more than men. Neither the gender gaps in COVID-19-related health and economic concerns nor the gender gaps …

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. …