This cross‐sectional study examined gender differences between male‐ and female‐typed housework during the early COVID‐19 lockdowns in 2020. Participants in Germany, India, Nigeria, and South Africa ( N = 823) rated their housework share before and during the lockdown, then speculated about the division of housework performed by men and women in general, before and post‐lockdown. Women spent more time on female‐typed tasks and men (in Nigeria and South Africa) on male‐typed tasks before and during the lockdown. Irrespective of participants’ gender, they speculated that men's and women's housework was more pronounced post‐lockdown than before, but we only found gender differences in South Africa and India. Gender role ideology (GRI) moderated the gender‒housework relationship in Germany, but gender did not moderate the paid work hours and housework relationship in any country. Our findings suggest that gendered housework persisted in these countries and raises concerns that this pattern is likely to continue post‐lockdown.

The study was an attempt at investigating the relatedness of pay satisfaction, job satisfaction and employee turnover in business organizations in Lagos Nigeria. Data were collected from workers of various organizations who were students of a part time educational programme in Lagos, Nigeria. Of the 140 questionnaires distributed to the survey participants, only 96 of the 120 questionnaire returned were usable. The survey used Pay Satisfaction Scale (PSS), the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) and Turnover Intention Questionnaire (TIQ) as measures in the study. The data obtained were analyzed using Correlation Analysis and Regression Analysis. The results of the analysis indicated that the relationship between pay satisfaction and employee turnover intention was positive, this was the expected direction. The result also confirmed the second hypothesis that there was a positive association between pay satisfaction and job satisfaction and lastly the study suggested that, pay satisfaction and job satisfaction could jointly predict employee turnover. Implications of the findings to the challenge of achieving effective growth and enhanced organizational performance among managers were discussed.

Background Identity as a complex socio-historical concept can be negotiated by young adults if exposed to other cultures aside their own original culture and may thus bring about certain consequences that are hardly acknowledged. Objective The aim of the study was to examine how remote exposure to foreign cultures influences young adults in the major domains of their ethnic identity and also examine the extent to which the phenomenon influences the quality of interpersonal relationships as well as life satisfaction. Method A total number of 414 young men and women participated in the study. (Female = 57.48%; Male = 42.51%, age range is 16 and 35 years). The participants responded to questionnaires designed to measure: exposure to foreign culture, remote acculturation, ethnic identity, and two other validated scales. The data analysis was conducted using descriptive and inferential statistics. Result Findings indicate that remote exposure to foreign culture partially predicted remote acculturation. Results also indicate that Identity exploration was positively related to remote acculturation. The study also found that there was a relationship between identity affirmation and life satisfaction. Identity affirmation was also found to be positively associated with quality of interpersonal relationships. Finally, there was a significant difference in the identity resolution of remotely-acculturating and non acculturating participants. Conclusion The study offers evidence on the reality of remote acculturation among the youths in Nigeria and suggested that loss of an identity to a foreign one among young people could affect family relationships and undermine social harmony. Adolescents could be supported through identity development process to develop in a way that makes them culturally competent globally but locally relevant.

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