Journal article
The Division of Domestic Labor before and during the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Canada: Stagnation versus Shifts in Fathers’ Contributions
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic created rapid, wide-ranging, and significant disruptions to work and family life. Accordingly, these dramatic changes may have reshaped parents' gendered division of labor in the short term. Using data from 1,234 Canadian parents in different-sex relationships, we compare retrospective reports of perceived sharing in how housework and childcare tasks were split prior to the declaration of the pandemic to assessments of …
Authors
Shafer K; Scheibling C; Milkie MA
Journal
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 523–549
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
November 2020
DOI
10.1111/cars.12315
ISSN
1755-6171