The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … large and comparable data sets or to conventional approaches that limit the possibilities to compare men and women. …

I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their …

German couples. I additionally show that the arrival of children leads to a stronger increase in the share of housework … performed by women in West Germany and that women are responsible for a larger share of child care as those from the East. A …

. Employers are less likely to callback mothers relative to women or men without children, but only if they are of patrilineal …

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 …

Women devote more time to housework than men do. Men devote more time to an employment than women do. In the present … paper we study the role of identity in the gender gap in the allocation of time between an employment and housework. We … develop a model consisting of two types of individuals, men and women, in traditional households. We find that, in a …

housework in heterosexual dual-earner couples. Relying on the second wave of Harmonised European Time Use Survey (HETUS) data … for 10 European countries, we estimate spousal relative worktime and housework to analyse within-couple time …-use arrangements. The results show that the disparity between a wife's and a husband's workhours is gradually narrowing, yet housework …

activity but is not counted as part of GDP. Women disproportionately shoulder the burden of unpaid work: on average, women do …