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    Working and Caring at Home: Gender Differences in the Effects of Covid-19 on Paid and Unpaid Labor in Australia

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    Author
    Craig, L; Churchill, B
    Date
    2020
    Source Title
    Feminist Economics
    Publisher
    Informa UK Limited
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Churchill, Brendan; Craig, Jocelyn
    Affiliation
    School of Social and Political Sciences
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    Craig, L. & Churchill, B. (2020). Working and Caring at Home: Gender Differences in the Effects of Covid-19 on Paid and Unpaid Labor in Australia. Feminist Economics, https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2020.1831039.
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    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/251897
    DOI
    10.1080/13545701.2020.1831039
    Abstract
    The COVID-19 pandemic caused working from home to spike abruptly. This had implications for those with caring responsibilities, particularly women, who shoulder most unpaid domestic work. But what about men? This paper reports early results from a survey of Australian men and women, conducted during state-imposed lockdown in May 2020 (N=2772). Respondents were asked their average daily time in housework, household management, and care (active and supervisory), and about time pressure, spare time and satisfaction with balance of paid and unpaid labor, before and during the pandemic. Unpaid work rose significantly. Women still did most, but men’s childcare time increased more in relative terms, so average gender gaps narrowed. The relative gap in housework remained. For many, the lockdown generated lower subjective time pressure, but dissatisfaction with balance of paid and unpaid work rose markedly, and from a much higher base for women. Gender gaps in this measure remained wide.

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