Changes in US Parents' Domestic Labor During the Early Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Stay-at-home orders and the removal of care and domestic supports during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic substantially disrupted US parents' work and family lives. Although much is known about changes in US parents' paid labor arrangements, the evidence regarding changes in unpaid domestic labor has been largely anecdotal. This study uses novel data from 1,025 US parents in different-sex partnerships to provide a descriptive overview of changes in mothers' and fathers' participation in, and division of, housework and childcare from March 2020 to the early days of the pandemic (late April 2020). Findings show an overall increase in domestic responsibilities for mothers who were already doing most of the household labor. Still, both mothers and fathers report a general shift toward m

SUBMITTER: Carlson DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8662176 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature