This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on … individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and child care, and the gender gaps in these activities, but most research refers to … single countries, and general patterns are rarely explored. Cross-country evidence on gender gaps in paid work, unpaid work …

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 … and parenthood bring substantial changes in time use among women and men. This paper updates and reinforces the findings …

the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews …The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …

The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living … provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second … earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not …