Gender Convergence in Couples' Time Use Following the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Autor/in	Binder, Ariel
Titel	Gender Convergence in Couples' Time Use Following the COVID-19 Pandemic. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Geschlechtsspezifische Angleichung der Zeitnutzung von Paaren nach der COVID-19-Pandemie.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA Network @ LISER (2026), 34 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper / IZA Network @ LISER. 18657
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monografie
Schlagwörter	Ehefrau; Ehemann; Kinderbetreuung; Pandemie; Konvergenz; Arbeitszeitverkürzung; Hausarbeit; Arbeitsteilung; Erwerbstätigkeit; Qualifikation; Auswirkung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Hochschulabsolvent; Ehepaar; Ehepartner; USA
Abstract	"This paper uses American Time Use Survey data to show that prime-age men's and women's average weekly work hours followed parallel trends from 2011-19, but then abruptly converged in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic. This convergence was driven by the changing behavior of couples, for whom the gender gap in weekly hours of paid work closed by 4.3 on a base of 14.7 (29.3%). While historical gender convergence has been driven by wives, husbands accounted for three-quarters (all) of the recent convergence in paid work (unpaid housework). I find that two labor market factors associated with the pandemic - sectoral reallocation and remote work-exposure - explain little of observed time-use changes in samples of husbands and fathers, although they explain 44% of the shrinking college-noncollege gap in paid work observed among fathers. These results suggest an ongoing shift in labor supply factors associated with fatherhood that may be stronger among the college-educated." The study refers to the period 2011-2024 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2026/4