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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