US Parents' Domestic Labor During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: It is important to assess the long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for gender equality, but we know little about US parents' domestic arrangements beyond the early days of the pandemic or how simultaneous changes in employment, earnings, telework, gender ideologies, and care supports may have altered domestic arrangements. This study assesses changes in parents' domestic labor during the first year of the pandemic using fixed-effects regression on data from a longitudinal panel of 700 different-sex partnered US parents collected at three time points: March, April, and November 2020. Parents' divisions of housework and childcare became more equal early in the pandemic, but divisions of housework reverted toward pre-pandemic levels by Fall 2020 whereas fathers' shares of ch

SUBMITTER: Carlson DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9375059 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature