abstract: 'By leveraging the UK COVID-19 lockdown, this paper examines the impact

  of changes in paid working hours on gender inequality, specifically time

  devoted to housework and childcare. We compare potential outcomes of

  similar couples who only differed in partners'' losing (or maintaining)

  paid hours during the period from January/February 2020 to April 2020.

  We draw on wave 9 of the UK Household Longitudinal Study and the first

  wave of the Understanding Society COVID-19 study to evaluate competing

  hypotheses derived from time availability, relative resources and `doing

  gender'' perspectives. Following studies on the gendered division of

  unpaid labour, we also account for heterogeneous implications by

  analysing couples where partners'' relative contributions to household

  labour income differ by gender. Our empirical results indicate that both

  men and women who lost paid hours increased the time devoted to domestic

  chores, but gender inequality strikes back, especially after breadwinner

  women lose paid hours. Overall, this paper provides fruitful insights

  into how theories of gender inequality in the division of domestic tasks

  could benefit from research on labour market shocks.'
affiliation: 'Zamberlan, A (Corresponding Author), Univ Trento, Dept Sociol \& Social
  Res, Via Verdi 26, I-38122 Trento, Italy.

  Zamberlan, Anna; Gioachin, Filippo; Gritti, Davide, Univ Trento, Dept Sociol \&
  Social Res, Via Verdi 26, I-38122 Trento, Italy.'
article-number: '100583'
author: Zamberlan, Anna and Gioachin, Filippo and Gritti, Davide
author-email: 'anna.zamberlan@unitn.it

  filippo.gioachin@unitn.it

  davide.gritti@unitn.it'
author_list:
- family: Zamberlan
  given: Anna
- family: Gioachin
  given: Filippo
- family: Gritti
  given: Davide
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.rssm.2021.100583
earlyaccessdate: MAY 2021
eissn: 1878-5654
files: []
issn: 0276-5624
journal: RESEARCH IN SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY
keywords: 'COVID-19; Gender inequality; Housework; Childcare; Employment changes;

  Breadwinner types'
keywords-plus: 'DIVISION-OF-LABOR; HOUSEHOLD LABOR; TIME-USE; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

  DEPENDENCE; HOME; PARTICIPATION; UNEMPLOYMENT; PREDICTORS; TRANSITION'
language: English
month: JUN
number-of-cited-references: '85'
orcid-numbers: 'Gritti, Davide/0000-0001-9505-6565

  Zamberlan, Anna/0000-0001-8615-5684

  Gioachin, Filippo/0000-0003-3791-7085'
papis_id: 76ce1112a2cd8bf55d7e0e10252bf292
ref: Zamberlan2021workless
researcherid-numbers: 'Zamberlan, Anna/AEI-7404-2022

  '
times-cited: '37'
title: Work less, help out more? The persistence of gender inequality in housework
  and childcare during UK COVID-19
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000654294200001
usage-count-last-180-days: '5'
usage-count-since-2013: '50'
volume: '73'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2021'