Locking Down Gender Roles? A Time-Use Perspective on Gender Division of Household Labour during the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown in Belgium
| Autor: | Theun Pieter van Tienoven, Ilse Laurijssen, Ignace Glorieux, Joeri Minnen, Anaïs Glorieux, Petrus Te Braak |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Sociology, Tempus Omnia Revelat, Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and Solvay Business School |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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Gender equality
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak Record locking Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Perspective (graphical) time-use data COVID-19 pandemic Division (mathematics) Gender Equality Political science Pandemic routine domestic work Demographic economics Social Sciences (miscellaneous) household labour |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0192513x211054463 |
| Popis: | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the division of household labour could continue to lock down or start to break gender roles. Using time-use data of n = 473 individuals collected during the lockdown restrictions in Belgium from March to May 2020, we analyse the gendered division of routine and non-routine household labour in absolute time use and relative shares. We compare against the Belgian time-use data of 2013 for the same time period ( n = 678 individuals). A time-demanding work and living situation associate with an increase in men’s time spent on household labour during the lockdown but not with a change in women’s time use. The gender gap closes in absolute time but not in relative shares of routine and non-routine household labour. The limited impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gender division of household labour indicates a temporal rather than a substantial change in gender roles. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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