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. …

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 …

division of labor, women were foremost in bearing the brunt of the increased demands on unpaid care work under the lockdown … conditions. At the same time, women were also overrepresented in informal employment and service sectors hard-hit by the pandemic … resulting in more severe job loss for female workers overall. In many labor markets, women constituted the majority of so …

, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 Prolific respondents residents in the UK. We find that women's mental health … was worse than men's along the four metrics we collected data on, that women were more concerned about getting and … spreading the virus, and that women perceived the virus as more prevalent and lethal than men did. Women were also more likely …

explained by the industry sectors and occupations where women and men work. A counterfactual analysis accounts for the specific … Recession. The results contradict the existing narrative that men's employment was more harshly affected than women's employment …

societies' perceptions of women combining motherhood and career. …

approximately constant rates throughout the period, and does not account for the stall. Instead, changes to how women's likelihood … women's employment when they had children or achieved higher qualifications continued to narrow the gap even after it had …

In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper … Switzerland, using longitudinal panel data to estimate individual fixed effects for men and women. Moving from an entirely male to … occupations holding less than 50 percent of women from those with more than 60 percent of women. Only moving into the latter …