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Gender differences in domestic work during COVID19 in Uruguay

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  • Florencia Amábile

    (Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay)

  • Marisa Bucheli

    (Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República Montevideo, Uruguay)

  • Cecilia González

    (Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay)

  • Cecilia Lara

    (Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay)

Abstract

The pandemic generated by Covid-19 caused a shock that would change households’ distribution of domestic work. Based on a survey conducted in 2020 in Uruguay, this paper analyzes changes in the hours devoted to childcare and housework of a sample of highly educated population living with a partner. We find that women and men increased their hours of domestic work, and this is related to decreasing time in the labor market, but there is no relationship with spouses’ time in paid work. The rise (decline) of female (male) time in the labor market leads to equal sharing of couples’ domestic work. Finally, the respondents declared that the increase in their domestic work was more intensive than their partners, with women in particular stating they did more housework than men. The sharing domestic work gap tended to decline, but the final result is sensitive to the gender of the respondent.

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  • Florencia Amábile & Marisa Bucheli & Cecilia González & Cecilia Lara, 2021. "Gender differences in domestic work during COVID19 in Uruguay," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 1221, Department of Economics - dECON.
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    Keywords

    Covid-19; gender time use gap; domestic work; childcare; housework; Uruguay;
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    JEL classification:

    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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