Who took care of what? The gender division of unpaid work during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in France
Marta Pasqualini, Marta Domínguez Folgueras, Emanuele Ferragina, Olivier Godechot, Ettore Recchi, Mirna Safi
Abstract
France was one of the first countries implementing lockdown measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Since families spent more time at home, household and care workloads increased significantly. However, existing findings are mixed in terms of whether
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