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Cracking under Pressure? Gender Role Attitudes toward Maternal Employment during COVID-1
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BIB)
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected labour market outcomes of men and women, and the restricted operation of daycare facilities and schools disrupted the infrastructure that typically allows working parents to reconcile work and family life. This paper analyses to what extent the pandemic c... mehr
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected labour market outcomes of men and women, and the restricted operation of daycare facilities and schools disrupted the infrastructure that typically allows working parents to reconcile work and family life. This paper analyses to what extent the pandemic changed gender role attitudes toward maternal employment. Using German data from 2008 through spring 2022, we use before-and-after comparisons and individual fixed effects models to trace changes in gender role attitudes throughout the first two years of the pandemic. We document a significant drop in egalitarian attitudes until spring 2021 - when the operation of daycare facilities and schools was severely disrupted - especially for fathers of dependent children. This drop is followed by a significant recovery until spring 2022, a period in which daycare and schools operated almost regularly. Our findings suggest that pandemic-related changes in gender role attitudes toward maternal employment are mostly transitory.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Geschlechtsrolle; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; Mutter; Epidemie; Kinderbetreuung; Kindertagesstätte; Schule; Familie-Beruf; Einstellungsänderung
Klassifikation
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
COVID-19; Coronavirus; daycare and school closures
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Erscheinungsort
Wiesbaden
Seitenangabe
37 S.
Schriftenreihe
BiB Working Paper, 4-2022
ISSN
2196-9574
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0