The impact of COVID-19 on gender inequality in the labor market and gender-role attitudes

Reichelt, Malte; Makovi, Kinga; Sargsyan, Anahit

doi:10.1080/14616696.2020.1823010

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“…It is noteworthy that, within the descriptive results, the percentage of women is higher than men for unemployed, furloughed, on leave (other reasons), or teleworking individuals. These data are consistent with the literature that has studied the pandemic’s impact on the employment situation of men and women [ 39 ]. Also worth mentioning is the large percentage of people with a high level of education among those who are teleworking since the outbreak of the pandemic, this also being corroborated by the literature on the subject [ 33 ].…”

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“…In addition, ref. [ 39 ] affirm that women will be more affected by job changes with a greater probability of moving towards either teleworking, a reduction in working hours or ultimately unemployment. These results suggest that the economic crisis prompted by the pandemic has proved especially detrimental to women, as opposed to the Great Recession, which hit men to a greater extent [ 40 ].…”

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Furloughs, Teleworking and Other Work Situations during the COVID-19 Lockdown: Impact on Mental Well-Being

Escudero-Castillo

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Rodríguez

2021

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As a consequence of the Spring 2020 lockdown that occurred in Spain due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people lost their jobs or had to be furloughed. The objective of this study is to analyse the influence of the latter changes in labour market status on psychological well-being. For this purpose, an ad-hoc questionnaire featuring socio-demographic and mental health criteria was created. Granted that the pandemic can be viewed as an exogenous shock, the bias caused by the bidirectional problems between the work situation and mental well-being can be tackled. Results indicate that the lockdown exerted a greater negative effect on the self-perceived well-being of unemployed and furloughed persons than on those in employment. Moreover, among those in continuous employment, teleworkers experienced a lesser degree of self-perceived well-being post lockdown as compared to those people remaining in the same work location throughout the COVID-19 crisis. Finally, the lockdown provoked worse effects on the self-perceived well-being of women as compared to men, a result that appears to be related to gender differences in household production. In conclusion, these results could be especially relevant given that the evolution of the pandemic is having ongoing effects on employment and, therefore, on the mental health of workers.

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Furloughs, Teleworking and Other Work Situations during the COVID-19 Lockdown: Impact on Mental Well-Being

Escudero-Castillo

Díaz

Rodríguez

2021

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“…A cross-cultural study based on data from the U.S.A., Germany, and Singapore examined consequences of the pandemic for unemployment, underemployment, transitions to working from home, and for gender-role attitudes. The study indicated that compared to men, women were more likely to work from home, reduce their working hours, and become unemployed in the aftermath of the pandemic, and that this was mainly due to their pre-pandemic labor market precariousness (Reichelt et al 2020).…”

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The impact of the coronavirus crisis on European societies. What have we learnt and where do we go from here? – Introduction to the COVID volume

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The coronavirus pandemic, which first impacted European societies in early 2020, has created a twofold crisis by combining a health threat with economic turmoil. While the crisis has affected all European societies very significantly, its impact varies across countries, social groups, and societal domains. In an effort to provide a first overview of the effect of the coronavirus crisis, in this editorial we discuss contributions of 58 papers published as part of this special issue. These early research papers illustrate the varied impact of the pandemic on various areas of social life. The first group of studies in this special issue analyzes the effect of the pandemic on social inequalities with respect to gender, ethnic otherness, education, and work. A second stream of research focuses on the psychological consequences of the pandemic, especially with respect to wellbeing and resilience. Thirdly, the crisis is discussed on a societal level, in regard to welfare states, social policies, and approaches to crisis governance. In a fourth line of inquiry, several studies have analyzed the impact of the pandemic on social solidarity and cohesion. A fifth strand of research is devoted to examining the role of culture and lifestyles. This review ends with a discussion of areas for future research trajectories.

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“…However, there is fairly robust evidence suggesting significantand genderedchanges in parents' employment situation (e.g. Adam-Prassl et al 2020;Reichelt et al 2020).…”

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Changes in employment and relationship satisfaction in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the German family Panel

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Families have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdown, but barely any research has been conducted yet, investigating how COVID-19-related stressorsand, specifically, disruptions in established employment arrangementsaffected couples' relationship quality. To account more comprehensively for such non-monetary costs of the COVID-19 pandemic, the present study investigates whether changes in partners' employment situation during the COVID-19 crisisparticularly home-office and short-time workhad an immediate impact on the relationship satisfaction of cohabiting married and unmarried couples. To do so, we estimated fixed-effects regression models, exploiting unique data from the German Family Panel (pairfam; wave 11) and its supplementary COVID-19 web-survey. We observed a substantial proportion of respondents experiencing positive (20%) or negative (40%) changes in relationship satisfaction during the crisis. Relationship satisfaction has decreased, on average, for men and women alike, almost irrespective of whether they experienced COVID-19-related changes in their employment situation. While partners' employment situation hardly moderated the negative association between respondents' employment and relationship satisfaction, the presence of children seemed to buffer partly against a COVID-19-related decrease. Our results thus confirm previous findings suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a threat to couples' relationship quality and healthy family functioning more generally.

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The impact of COVID-19 on gender inequality in the labor market and gender-role attitudes

Cited by 272 publications

References 30 publications

Furloughs, Teleworking and Other Work Situations during the COVID-19 Lockdown: Impact on Mental Well-Being

Furloughs, Teleworking and Other Work Situations during the COVID-19 Lockdown: Impact on Mental Well-Being

The impact of the coronavirus crisis on European societies. What have we learnt and where do we go from here? – Introduction to the COVID volume

Changes in employment and relationship satisfaction in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the German family Panel

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