Liana Christin Landivar

TL;DR: It is found that mothers with young children have reduced their work hours four to five times more than fathers, indicating yet another negative consequence of the COVID‐19 pandemic, highlighting the challenges it poses to women's work hours and employment.

TL;DR: Among heterosexual married couples of which both partners work in telecommuting-capable occupations, mothers have scaled back their work hours to a far greater extent than fathers, suggesting that the COVID-19 crisis is already worsening existing gender inequality, with long-term implications for women’s employment.

TL;DR: The COVID-19 pandemic has upended in-person public education across the United States, a critical infrastructure of care that parents depend on to work as mentioned in this paper, and it has been called the "critical infrastructure" of care for mothers.

TL;DR: The authors argue that traditional gender roles were reinforced for U.S. parents but were eroded for Australian parents during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading journalists and academics to question whether men would take on more domestic work, generating a more equal gender division of household labor.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether work-hour regulations have a significant effect on household allocation of paid labour and gender workhour inequality and found that households in countries with shorter maximum weekly work hours had less inequality between spouses, as each additional allowable overtime hour over the standard working week increased the workhour gap between couples by 20 minutes.