Has the Economic Lockdown Following the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed the Gender Division of Labor in Israel?

Yaish, Meir; Mandel, Hadas; Kristal, Tali

doi:10.1177/08912432211001297

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“…Adams-Prassl et al ( 2020) used international survey data and found significant differences in job loss rates by gender in the United States and the United Kingdom, but not in Germany. Some studies found women -in particular mothers with young children -were more likely to reduce their working hours in the pandemic compared to men (e.g., Hupkau Yaish et al 2021 for Israel). Our study found some evidence which points at a potential further spread of part-time work among mothers as a consequence of the pandemic also in Austria (i.e., in case mothers who were in STW in 2021 re-enter regular employment on a part-time basis).…”

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation and financial well-being of families with children in Austria: Evidence from the first ten months of the crisis

Steiber

Siegert²,

Vogtenhuber³

2022

JFamRes

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Objective: This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation of parents and in turn on the subjective financial well-being of families with children in Austria. Background: The pandemic had strong repercussions on the Austrian labour market. The short-time work (STW) programme covered a third of employees in the first half of 2020 and helped to maintain employment levels. We provide evidence on how an unprecedented labour market crisis of this sort and in particular the exceptionally wide use of STW had affected the employment situation of parents and the financial well-being of different types of families. Method: The study draws on register data and representative panel survey data. The latter cover 905 families with minor children and include information on the employment situation of parents and the financial well-being of families before crisis onset, three months and ten months after its onset. Results: Register data show that mothers were not more strongly affected by the labour market crisis of 2020 than childless women or fathers. According to survey data, about a third of couples with minor children experienced income losses. Despite the wide use of STW and government support to families, the share of families in financial difficulties has substantially increased, especially among those with many children and single parents, many of whom were at risk of poverty already before the crisis. Conclusion: Substantial shares of dual-earner families that had low poverty risks before the crisis were in financial difficulties in 2020. Potential spill-over effects of financial shocks on children are discussed.

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation and financial well-being of families with children in Austria: Evidence from the first ten months of the crisis

Steiber

Siegert²,

Vogtenhuber³

2022

JFamRes

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“…Combined with the growing pressure for intensive parenting (Hays, 1996 ), this results in significant childcare investment by mothers. Although crises may potentially be a turning point that offer an opportunity for a different interpretation of existing gender arrangements within the family, studies show that during COVID-19 gender inequality has only been exacerbated, increasing the time women devote to domestic tasks (Chamorro-Premuzik & Ibarra, 2020 ; Craig & Churchill, 2020 ; Hank & Steinbach, 2021 ; Yaish et al, 2021 ).…”

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No Room of her Own: Married Couples’ Negotiation of Workspace at Home During COVID-19

2021

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The current study examined the right to a professional workspace and separation between private and public within the home as an arena of gendered negotiation and struggle between spouses working from home during the COVID-19 crisis. Using a qualitative, inductive approach based on grounded theory, we conducted in-depth interviews with fifteen professional couples in Israel about their experiences with working from home and the division of labor and space between spouses. Our analysis revealed three key issues related to these experiences: the division of physical workspace between the spouses, the division of work time (compared to home time), and bodily-spatial aspects of the infiltration of workspace into home through the Zoom camera. The patterns described here suggest that the gendered power relations between spouses working from home are reproduced through an unequal negotiation of space and time in the home, so that in practice, men’s work was prioritized in spatio-temporal terms, whereas women’s workspace and time was more fragmented and dispersed throughout the home and day. These findings illuminate women’s right to workspace in the home as an issue of gender equality that has been amplified by the current global pandemic, and how gendered divisions of space and time serve to reproduce the gender order.

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“…Most of the family members will be in the same household and upon doing these reviews, conflicts within gender division are often mentioned in the studies. According to Yaish et. al.…”

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“…Furthermore, with gender division becoming unbalanced and one gender is more vulnerable for job losses and reduction in income, this has led to gender inequality or gaps (Hasan et. al., 2020;Berniell & Fernandez, 2021;Casele & Posel, 2021;Feng & Savani, 2020;Yaish et. al., 2021;Meyer et.…”

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Studies on the Impact of Work From Home During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Literature Review

Alifuddin

Ibrahim

2021

JKoB

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When the pandemic outbreak happened back in the year 2020, the Government and the policymakers took preventive steps and directive measures to sustain social movement and infection among the citizens. Common action that has been taken globally was the implementation of lockdown. Consequently, non-essential businesses or organizations had to resolve to transition from central office to work-from-home for as long as the lockdown period ended. This has brought a greater change in the world of work and boosted the experimentation of work-from-home arrangements worldwide. Despite it being a practice that some may have experienced before, it is still relatively uncommon and unusual to be done on such a large scale for some countries. Therefore, many are interested to see the outcome of work-from-home, the impact it had on employers, employees, and companies. However, the ample amount of works of literature made it hard to distinguish the direction and trend of this research. This paper aims to identify and highlight the major findings on the impacts of work-from-home by reviewing 55 published papers in the year between 2020 to 2021 and analyze them through a thematic analysis. The results show 60 percent of these studies are covered by the field of social sciences which both involve developed and developing countries. Nevertheless, the impact of work-from-home was found common as the problem used to arise even before the pandemic happened. This gives an opportunity in future studies to finally resolve some of these problems if work-from-home soon becomes the 'new norm' in the world of work.

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Has the Economic Lockdown Following the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed the Gender Division of Labor in Israel?

Cited by 49 publications

References 18 publications

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation and financial well-being of families with children in Austria: Evidence from the first ten months of the crisis

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment situation and financial well-being of families with children in Austria: Evidence from the first ten months of the crisis

No Room of her Own: Married Couples’ Negotiation of Workspace at Home During COVID-19

Studies on the Impact of Work From Home During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Literature Review

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