Important progress toward gender equality has been made in the past decades, but inequalities linked to gender norms …, stereotypes, and the unequal distribution of housework and childcare responsibilities persist. Lifetime events such as marriage … of previous studies by analyzing gender differences in the allocation of time among market work and unpaid domestic work …

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 …

We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the … COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with … WFH being more prevalent among women than among men. Respondents' job traits played a significant role in the gender gap …

To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real … hetero-sexual couples playing a battle of the sexes game. The salience of gender norms varies across treatments: the Norm … consistent with marriage market motives, i.e. some men may want to signal progressive gender attitudes to their partner. …

a 2001 household survey. We identified a gender-based division of labor characterized not so much by who does what type … inequality in the distribution of total time spent at work, we show that gender plays an important role in determining the …

In order to provide a coherent perspective of gender differences in the world of work, this paper argues, the many … intersections of paid and unpaid work must be brought to light. It is well documented that gender-based wage differentials and … children and performing maintenance chores. Beyond the obvious gender inequalities characterizing the latter, unpaid work …