The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality
Northwestern University · National Bureau of Economic Research · +2 more institutions
Abstract
The economic downturn caused by the current COVID-19 outbreak has substantial implications for gender equality, both during the downturn and the subsequent recovery.Compared to "regular" recessions, which affect men's employment more severely than women's employment, the employment drop related to social distancing measures has a large impact on sectors with high female employment shares.In addition, closures of schools and daycare centers have massively increased child care needs, which has a particularly large impact on working mothers.The effects of the crisis on working mothers are likely to be persistent, due to high returns to experience in the labor market.Beyond the immediate crisis, there are opposing…
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Authors
4- TATitan AlonCorresponding
Northwestern University, National Bureau of Economic Research, University of California San Diego
- MDMatthias Doepke
National Bureau of Economic Research, University of California San Diego
- JOJane Olmstead-Rumsey
Northwestern University, National Bureau of Economic Research, University of California San Diego
- MTMichèle Tertilt
National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Mannheim, University of California San Diego
Topics & keywords
- Recession
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Social distance
- Distancing
- Labour economics
- Affect (linguistics)
- Division of labour
- Work (physics)
- Gender equality