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No lasting increase in the gender care gap in Germany after the coronavirus pandemic
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 grow even larger. In fact, empirical analyses show that gender differences in care work did increase in young families at the beginning of the pandemic, as primarily women took on the extra childcare work brought on by closures of daycare facilities and schools. However, using data from the family panel pairfam, this Weekly Report shows that the gender care gap has since returned to its-albeit still high-pre-pandemic level. If policymakers want to effectively combat gender inequalities on the labor market, they should focus more on the unequal division of care work and dismantle existing barriers preventing a more equal division. This could be done by, for example, increasing the period of parental leave earmarked to fathers, and reforming minijobs and Ehegattensplitting, i.e., the joint taxation of married couples with full income splitting.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: DIW Weekly Report ; ISSN: 2568-7697 ; Volume: 14 ; Year: 2024 ; Issue: 9 ; Pages: 75-82
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- Thema
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gender
child care
families
division of care work
Covid-19
pairfam
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Jessen, Jonas
Kinne, Lavinia
Wrohlich, Katharina
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
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Berlin
- (wann)
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2024
- DOI
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doi:10.18723/diw_dwr:2024-9-1
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Jessen, Jonas
- Kinne, Lavinia
- Wrohlich, Katharina
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Entstanden
- 2024
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