Jessen, Jonas; Kinne, Lavinia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 14 (2024) 9, pp. 75-82
The gender care gap, i.e., the difference between the amount of unpaid care work-such as childcare and housework …-performed between men and women is comparatively high in Germany: Women take on much more unpaid care work than men. This gap increases … consistently when starting a family. At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, many feared that the gender care gap may …