The virus changed everything, didn’t it? Couples’ division of housework and childcare before and during the Corona crisis

Abstract: Objective: To contribute to the discussion about the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender (in)equality. Background: We focus on a core aspect of gender (in)equality in intimate relationships, namely couples’ division of housework and childcare, and whether this has changed during the Corona crisis. Method: Our descriptive analysis is based on pre-release data from the German Family Panel (pairfam; Wave 12) and its supplementary Corona web-survey (n=3,108). Results: We observe no fundamental changes in established aggregate-level patterns of couples’ division of labor, but some shift towards the extremes ('traditional' and 'role reversal') of the distribution. Regarding changes within couples, there is an almost equal split between those in which the female partner’s share in housework and childcare increased and those in which it decreased. Particularly in previously more egalitarian arrangements, a substantial proportion of women is now more likely to be primarily r.... https://ubp.uni-bamberg.de/jfr/index.php/jfr/article/view/488

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• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

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• Erschienen in: The virus changed everything, didn’t it? Couples’ division of housework and childcare before and during the Corona crisis ; volume:33 ; number:1 ; day:12 ; month:04 ; year:2021 ; Journal of family research ; 33, Heft 1 (12.04.2021)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Hank, Karsten ; Steinbach, Anja

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.20377/jfr-488-438
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022030619470603135542
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.