Work, Care and Gender during the COVID‐19 Crisis*

Hupkau, Claudia; Petrongolo, Bárbara

doi:10.1111/1475-5890.12245

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“…Differently from the past financial crisis, which had a greater impact on male-dominated sectors (construction, manufacturing, finance), the COVID-19 crisis is likely to have a similar impact on male and female employment ( Alon et al. 2020 ; Hupkau and Petrongolo 2020 ), since the social measures taken have affected sectors where both genders are employed ( ILO 2020) .…”

Section: Gender Gaps In the Labor Market During Covid-19mentioning

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Gender Equality and Public Policy during COVID-19

Profeta

2020

CESifo Economic Studies

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The outbreak of COVID-19 has affected men and women worldwide. The gender dimension of COVID-19 has attracted the attention of researchers and policymakers: while women seem to be less severely hit by the virus and are more compliant with the restricting rules imposed to reduce the spread of the contagion, they risk to suffer more the economic consequences of the pandemic, because they are more vulnerable on the labor market and because they are carrying on most of the burden of housework and childcare which increased substantially during the lockdown. Public policies are required to address the emergency and to deal with its gender implications. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women leaders have performed better than men in dealing with the emergency. This paper explores the evidence on the gender dimension of the pandemic under a new perspective proposed by Profeta (2020) , focused on the double relationship between gender equality and public policy: on one side, I show which policies can support gender equality in times of COVID-19 and, on the other side, I explore whether women leadership can promote successful measures. While the evidence provided is only suggestive, future studies should assess causal relationships. (JEL codes: J16 and J18)

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Section: Gender Gaps In the Labor Market During Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Equality and Public Policy during COVID-19

Profeta

2020

CESifo Economic Studies

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“…The closure of schools and some businesses imposed many housework and childcare responsibilities on parents, especially on mothers ( Farré et al, 2020 ). Alon et al (2020) and Hupkau and Petrongolo (2020) showed in a survey of United States and United Kingdom families that housework, childcare duties, and the role of teaching for children have put more pressure on parents, especially on mothers. Stressful situations by influencing people’s coping strategies are associated with the high negative mood symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress in parents ( Mather et al, 2014 ; Flouri et al, 2018 ), symptoms of burnout ( Mather et al, 2014 ), and parent–child dysfunctional interactions ( Platt et al, 2016 ).…”

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Psychological Well-Being, Marital Satisfaction, and Parental Burnout in Iranian Parents: The Effect of Home Quarantine During COVID-19 Outbreaks

Mousavi

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as an infectious disease, is now prevalent in many countries around the world, which has recently led many governments to home quarantine and impose penalties for violating quarantine. Concerns and stress caused by lockdown and social isolation led to personal and interactive reactions in some families, which are also culturally important to address. This study was administrated to study the psychological well-being and the effect of home quarantine on marital satisfaction (MS) and parental burnout (PB) from parenting responsibilities during the prevalence of COVID-19 in Iranian parents. A total of 213 parents (140 mothers and 73 fathers) voluntarily participated in the online survey in the period of February to mid-April 2020 and completed the 5-item index of the well-being of the World Health Organization (WHO-5), the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (KMSS), and the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA). The results showed that the effect of home quarantine on MS and PB was not significant in parents (p > 0.01). The interactive effect of home quarantine and gender was not significant on MS and PB (p > 0.01). In addition, the mothers significantly reported higher PB than the fathers, but the fathers had higher scores in MS and psychological well-being (p < 0.01). The effect of some demographic factors on the studied variables was also significant. Supportive resources in family-based culture may play an essential role to reduce the negative effects of stressful situations on family interactions.

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“…In the four months of the crisis to date, there is already evidence of the further entrenching and amplification of gender roles in the home, gendered ways of working and gendered caregiving roles during the pandemic (e.g., Hupkau & Petrongolo, 2020) and it is already clear that in the longer term, this is set to worsen. It is clear that the current health crisis is also a crisis for feminism (Mukhtar, 2020) in terms of the widening of previously narrowing inequalities in work–life practices.…”

Section: Covid‐19 In the [Gendered] Uk Contextmentioning

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Reflections on front‐line medical work during COVID‐19 and the embodiment of risk

Yarrow

Pagan

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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Drawing on the voice of a woman NHS frontline Doctor during the current Covid‐19 pandemic, we explore her lived experience of the embodiment of risk in the crisis. We explore her struggles and difficulties, giving her voice, and mobilising our writing to listen to these experiences, reflecting on them as a way of living our own feminist lives. Her story illustrates that the current crisis is not only a crisis of health, but a crisis for feminism. Through telling her story, we cast light upon the embodied amplification of inequalities, paternalistic discourses around risk, and lived experience of exposure to risk of contracting a deadly virus. We explore her work on the NHS frontline, providing a conceptual framework of the multi‐level facets of the embodiment of risk, through lived experiences of risk, and observations of the inequality of risk in the context of the Covid‐19 pandemic in the UK.

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Work, Care and Gender during the COVID‐19 Crisis*

Cited by 243 publications

References 18 publications

Gender Equality and Public Policy during COVID-19

Gender Equality and Public Policy during COVID-19

Psychological Well-Being, Marital Satisfaction, and Parental Burnout in Iranian Parents: The Effect of Home Quarantine During COVID-19 Outbreaks

Reflections on front‐line medical work during COVID‐19 and the embodiment of risk

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