Gender gaps within couples: Evidence of time re-allocations during COVID-19 in Argentina

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Based on a novel survey for Argentina, this paper provides evidence of the changes in time allocation within couples during the COVID-19 emergency. The survey was conducted online during the period of national lockdown in 2020 and collected information on hours allocated to paid work, housework, chi...

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Autores principales: Costoya, Victoria, Echeverría, Lucía, Edo, María, Rocha, Ana, Thailinger, Agustina
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Publicado: Springer Nature 2022
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Distribución del Tiempo
Brecha de Género
Aislamiento Social
COVID-19
Acceso en línea:https://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/id/eprint/3506/
https://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/id/eprint/3506/1/costoya-etal-2022.pdf
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spelling I29-R135-35062023-12-21T14:01:19Z Gender gaps within couples: Evidence of time re-allocations during COVID-19 in Argentina Costoya, Victoria Echeverría, Lucía Edo, María Rocha, Ana Thailinger, Agustina Based on a novel survey for Argentina, this paper provides evidence of the changes in time allocation within couples during the COVID-19 emergency. The survey was conducted online during the period of national lockdown in 2020 and collected information on hours allocated to paid work, housework, child care, educational childcare and leisure by both members of the couple before and during the lockdown, as well as socio-demographic characteristics. Our sample consists of 961 couples of which 785 have children. Our results indicate that during the lockdown, despite a reduction in time assigned to paid work and an increase in time spent in unpaid activities for both members of the couple, gender gaps regarding the latter increased. Specifically, while the load of men and women's work for pay became more equitable, women took up a larger proportion of the additional housework and childcare. We found that some factors mitigated (whether the man reduced his hours of work or whether both partners kept on doing so) while others potentiated (whether the woman reduced her hours of work, whether she continued working from home, or whether the couple outsourced housework before lockdown) the changes in the within-couple gender gaps in unpaid activities. Springer Nature 2022-06 https://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/id/eprint/3506/ application/pdf eng https://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/id/eprint/3506/1/costoya-etal-2022.pdf Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 43, 213-226. ISSN 1058-0476. 10.1007/s10834-021-09770-8 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-021-09770-8> Argentina info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s10834-021-09770-8 info:eu-repo/semantics/dataset/url/http://nulan.mdp.edu.ar/3507/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Fil: Costoya, Victoria. Universidad de San Andrés. CEDH; Argentina. Fil: Echeverría, Lucía. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales; Argentina. Fil: Edo, María. Universidad de San Andrés. CEDH; Argentina. Fil: Rocha, Ana. Universidad de San Andrés. CEDH; Argentina. Fil: Thailinger, Agustina. Universidad de San Andrés. CEDH; Argentina. Distribución del Tiempo Brecha de Género Aislamiento Social COVID-19 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
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Brecha de Género
Aislamiento Social
COVID-19
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Brecha de Género
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Rocha, Ana
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description Based on a novel survey for Argentina, this paper provides evidence of the changes in time allocation within couples during the COVID-19 emergency. The survey was conducted online during the period of national lockdown in 2020 and collected information on hours allocated to paid work, housework, child care, educational childcare and leisure by both members of the couple before and during the lockdown, as well as socio-demographic characteristics. Our sample consists of 961 couples of which 785 have children. Our results indicate that during the lockdown, despite a reduction in time assigned to paid work and an increase in time spent in unpaid activities for both members of the couple, gender gaps regarding the latter increased. Specifically, while the load of men and women's work for pay became more equitable, women took up a larger proportion of the additional housework and childcare. We found that some factors mitigated (whether the man reduced his hours of work or whether both partners kept on doing so) while others potentiated (whether the woman reduced her hours of work, whether she continued working from home, or whether the couple outsourced housework before lockdown) the changes in the within-couple gender gaps in unpaid activities.
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title Gender gaps within couples: Evidence of time re-allocations during COVID-19 in Argentina
title_short Gender gaps within couples: Evidence of time re-allocations during COVID-19 in Argentina
title_full Gender gaps within couples: Evidence of time re-allocations during COVID-19 in Argentina
title_fullStr Gender gaps within couples: Evidence of time re-allocations during COVID-19 in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Gender gaps within couples: Evidence of time re-allocations during COVID-19 in Argentina
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