Telecommuting and gender inequalities in parents' paid and unpaid work before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examines the relationship between telecommuting and gender inequalities in parents' time use at home and on the job before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background

Telecommuting is a potential strategy for addressing the competing demands of work and home and the gendered ways in which they play out. Limited evidence is mixed, however, on the implications of telecommuting for mothers' and fathers' time in paid and unpaid work. The massive increase in telecommuting due to COVID-19 underscores the critical need to address this gap in the literature.

Method

Data from the 2003-2018 American Time Use Survey (N = 12,519) and the 2020 Current Population Survey (N = 83,676) were used to estimate the relationship between telecommuting and

SUBMITTER: Lyttelton T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8661776 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature