Baby steps: the gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic

Oxford Review of Economic Policy - Tập 36 Số Supplement_1 - Trang S169-S186 - 2020
Almudena Sevilla1, Sarah Smith2
1University College London
2University of Bristol

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Abstract The nature and scale of the shocks to the demand for, and the supply of, home childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic provide a unique opportunity to increase our understanding of the division of home labour and the determinants of specialization within the household. We collected real-time data on daily lives to document the impact of measures to control COVID-19 on UK families with children under the age of 12. We document that these families have been doing the equivalent of a working week in childcare, with mothers bearing most of the burden. The additional hours of childcare done by women are less sensitive to their employment than they are for men, leaving many women juggling work and (a lot more) childcare, with likely adverse effects on their mental health and future careers. However, some households, those in which men have not been working, have taken greater steps towards an equal allocation, offering the prospect of sharing the burden of childcare more equally in the future.

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Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Tập 36 Số Supplement_1

S169-S186

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