Retraditionalisation? Work patterns of families with children during the pandemic in Italy

Brini, Elisa; Lenko, Mariya; Scherer, Stefani; Vitali, Agnese

doi:10.4054/demres.2021.45.31

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“…In general, the extent to which the levels and trends observed for the United Kingdom apply to other countries will depend on the details of the lockdown policies and the ensuing economic recession. For example, effects may depend on long-term structural and normative conditions concerning women's and men's paid and unpaid labor (Qian and Hu 2021), which differ across welfare state contexts (Brini et al 2021).…”

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Gender division of housework during the COVID-19 pandemic: Temporary shocks or durable change?

Sánchez¹,

Fasang²,

Harkness³

2021

DemRes

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BACKGROUNDFirst evidence shows that lockdown and confinement measures were associated with a more egalitarian gender division of housework in the United Kingdom. However, we know little about how the gender division of housework adjusted in different phases of the pandemic. OBJECTIVEWe ask: (1) How did the gender division of housework change with the first national lockdown in March 2020? (2) Did observed changes persist when the lockdown measures were lifted or did couples revert to the gender division of housework observed before lockdown? METHODSWe describe changes in the share of housework done by women before, during, and after the first lockdown using data from the Understanding Society COVID-19 study and employing fixed effects regression for couples with pre-school or school age children and couples without children living at home. RESULTSThe lockdown measures affected the gender division of housework with differential effects by the age of the youngest child in the household. After the initial shock, couples with younger children and couples with school-age children reverted to their prepandemic gender division of housework. However, couples without children living at home sustained a more equal share of housework.

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Gender division of housework during the COVID-19 pandemic: Temporary shocks or durable change?

Sánchez¹,

Fasang²,

Harkness³

2021

DemRes

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“…However, stay-at-home orders may have also led to mechanisms that worsen birth outcomes. Amon the others, lockdowns resulted in increased exposure to domestic violence (Piquero, Jennings, Jemison, Kaukinen, & Knaul, 2021), deteriorating health behaviors (Mata et al, 2021), excessive burdens in housework (Brini, Lenko, Scherer, & Vitali, 2021), reduced access to medical care, and increased economic uncertainty.…”

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The Consequences of the COVID19 Pandemic for Fertility and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Spanish Birth Registers

Cozzani¹,

Fallesen²,

Passaretta³

et al. 2022

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Demographic change almost never happens fast, except during wars, natural disasters, and pandemics. We ask what the joint consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for fertility and birth outcomes are by drawing on full population administrative data from Spain. We find a surprising improvement in birth outcomes in November and to a less extent in December 2020 (8–9 months after the first wave of the pandemic) compared with monthly trends in the ten previous years (2010-2019). The improvement in birth outcomes was shortly followed by a decline in the total fertility rate (TFR), especially among women at the beginning and the end of their reproductive age. These findings are consistent with the idea that the pandemic selectively affected conception, which showed up first as a birth-outcomes improvement due to the missing conception of frail-children-to-be (including pre-term children) and then as a lowered fertility rate due to the missing conception of at-term children.

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“…Brini et al ( 2021 ) document a reduction in dual-worker couples, an increase in not-working couples, especially among the lower educated, and an increase in female breadwinning. Bettin et al ( 2022 ) conclude that, in Italy, the lockdown did not produce the “she-cession” experienced in other countries.…”

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The Gender Gaps in Time-Use Within Italian Households During 2002–2014

Barigozzi

Timoteo²,

Monfardini

2022

Ital Econ J

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How are Italian parents sharing family duties when they are both working full-time? We estimate gender gaps in the allocation of time by young Italian couples with children and document their trends over the years 2002–2014, disentangling time use on weekdays and weekend days. We show that the gaps in time devoted to Market work and Household work have narrowed over the years 2002–2014, while the gap in Basic childcare and Leisure remained almost constant. But the negative gap (females-males) in Market work shrunk much more than the positive gap in Household work (46% against 25%) The best-case scenario for gender parity is the one in which partners share similar work responsibilities and are relatively young; however, we show that family duties remain heavily unbalanced across gender in this sample. In 2014, full-time working mothers devote to Total work (paid and unpaid) 11 h per week more and to Leisure 9.7 h per week less than their partners. On the positive side, the gender gap in Quality childcare exhibits a reversed sign, which is driven by fathers’ engagement on weekend days.

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Retraditionalisation? Work patterns of families with children during the pandemic in Italy

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Gender division of housework during the COVID-19 pandemic: Temporary shocks or durable change?

Gender division of housework during the COVID-19 pandemic: Temporary shocks or durable change?

The Consequences of the COVID19 Pandemic for Fertility and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Spanish Birth Registers

The Gender Gaps in Time-Use Within Italian Households During 2002–2014

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