Journal
POLITICS & GENDER
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 1131-1141Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1743923X20000574
Keywords
COVID-19; gender; child care; Canada; Australia
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- Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University
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Households in Canada and Australia have exhibited similar trends in the gendered allocation of additional child care responsibilities resulting from policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we employ survey data to analyze the extent to which policy interventions related to COVID-19 have exacerbated gender disparities in child care obligations. We find that existing asymmetrical distributions of child care obligations in Canada and Australia have been amplified during the pandemic, resulting in a disproportionate burden on women. During the pandemic we also find that, in households with children, women tend to report experiencing poorer mental health than men.
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