The gendered consequences of a weak infrastructure of care: School reopening plans and parents' employment during the COVID-19 pandemic

C Collins, L Ruppanner, L Christin Landivar… - Gender & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended in-person public education across the United States,
a critical infrastructure of care that parents—especially mothers—depend on to work. To …

A gendered pandemic: Childcare, homeschooling, and parents' employment during COVID‐19

RJ Petts, DL Carlson, JR Pepin - Gender, Work & Organization, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic has dramatically affected employment, particularly for mothers.
Many believe that the loss of childcare and homeschooling requirements are key …

The impact of US school closures on labor market outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic

KSD Garcia, BW Cowan - 2022 - nber.org
ABSTRACT A substantial fraction of k-12 schools in the United States closed their in-person
operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. These closures may have altered the labor …

Covid-19 and the gender gap in employment among parents of young children in Canada

S Fuller, Y Qian - Gender & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Economic and social disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic have important implications for
gender and class inequality. Drawing on Statistics Canada's monthly Labour Force Survey …

Schools, job flexibility, and married women's labor supply

B Hansen, JJ Sabia, J Schaller - Journal of Human Resources, 2024 - jhr.uwpress.org
This study examines the employment effects of a large shock to mothers' childcare costs
generated by changes in the availability of in-person K-12 instruction during the COVID-19 …

The gendered politics of pandemic relief: Labor and family policies in Denmark, Germany, and the United States during COVID-19

N Bariola, C Collins - American Behavioral Scientist, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified families' struggles to reconcile caregiving and
employment, especially for working mothers. How have different countries reacted to these …

COVID-19 and the gender employment gap among parents of young children

Y Qian, S Fuller - Canadian public policy, 2020 - utpjournals.press
Working life in Canada has changed dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using
Labour Force Survey data, we show that gender employment gaps among parents of young …

[PDF][PDF] Parents in a pandemic labor market

O Lofton, N Petrosky-Nadeau, L Seitelman - 2021 - frbsf.org
Gender gaps in labor market outcomes during the pandemic are largely due to differences
across parents: Employment and labor force participation fell much less for fathers as …

Families in quarantine: COVID‐19 pandemic effects on the work and home lives of women and their daughters

EF Coyle, M Fulcher, K Baker… - Journal of Social …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic in March 2020 disrupted the lives of millions of US
families, with rising unemployment and initial lockdowns forcing nationwide school and …

Baby steps: The gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic

A Sevilla, S Smith - Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The nature and scale of the shocks to the demand for, and the supply of, home childcare
during the COVID-19 pandemic provide a unique opportunity to increase our understanding …