Cracking under Pressure? Gender Role Attitudes toward Maternal Employment during COVID-1
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected labour market outcomes of men and women, and the restricted operation of daycare facilities and schools disrupted the infrastructure that typically allows working parents to reconcile work and family life. This paper analyses to what extent the pandemic changed gender role attitudes toward maternal employment. Using German data from 2008 through spring 2022, we use before-and-after comparisons and individual fixed effects models to trace changes in gender role attitudes throughout the first two years of the pandemic. We document a significant drop in egalitarian attitudes until spring 2021 - when the operation of daycare facilities and schools was severely disrupted - especially for fathers of dependent children. This drop is followed by a significant recovery until spring 2022, a period in which daycare and schools operated almost regularly. Our findings suggest that pandemic-related changes in gender role attitudes toward maternal empl
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource, 37 S.
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Englisch
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BiB Working Paper ; Bd. 4-2022
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
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Mannheim
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SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
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2022
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Wiesbaden
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Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BIB)
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2022
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Huebener, Mathias
Hape, Astrid
Danzer, Natalia
Spiess, C. Katharina
Siegel, Nico A.
Wagner, Gert G.
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Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BIB)
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-79898-3
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 13:53 MEZ
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Beteiligte
- Huebener, Mathias
- Hape, Astrid
- Danzer, Natalia
- Spiess, C. Katharina
- Siegel, Nico A.
- Wagner, Gert G.
- Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BIB)
- SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
Entstanden
- 2022