Behavioral gender differences are reinforced during the COVID-19 crisis.

ABSTRACT: Behavioral gender differences have been found for a wide range of human activities including the way people communicate, move, provision themselves, or organize leisure activities. Using mobile phone data from 1.2 million devices in Austria (15% of the population) across the first phase of the COVID-19 crisis, we quantify gender-specific patterns of communication intensity, mobility, and circadian rhythms. We show the resilience of behavioral patterns with respect to the shock imposed by a strict nation-wide lock-down that Austria experienced in the beginning of the crisis with severe implications on public and private life. We find drastic differences in gender-specific responses during the different phases of the pandemic. After the lock-down gender differences in mobility and communicat

SUBMITTER: Reisch T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8478918 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature