Has the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovenia affected gender gap in paid and unpaid work?

Farčnik, Daša (author), Istenič, Tanja (author)

Among other things, the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the use of time of individuals. The burdens seem to have been unequally distributed between men and women. This paper analyses gender differences in Slovenia in time spent on paid and unpaid work before and during the lockdown. The design of our study enables us to examine the change in time spent on 14 different activities in an average workday before and during the pandemic. We find that during the pandemic, the gender gap in paid work widened, meaning that men spent even more time on paid work compared to women. Men also began to cook, devoted more time to cleaning and spent significantly more time caring for children. Therefore, the gender gap in childcare, which was marginally significant before the pandemic, became insignificant. During the pandemic, women spent relatively more time on home maintenance, which in turn led to a narrowing of the gender gap in this activity.

• Language: English
• Keywords: work, personnel, pandemic, unpaid work, gender gap, COVID-19, time use
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Publication date: 23.06.2022
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 137-152
• Numbering: Vol. 72, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-138431
• UDC: 331.108
• ISSN on article: 0001-6373
• DOI: 10.1556/032.2022.00008
• COBISS.SI-ID: 113096707
• Publication date in RUL: 20.07.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Acta oeconomica
• Shortened title: Acta oecon.
• Publisher: Akadémiai Kiadó
• ISSN: 0001-6373
• COBISS.SI-ID: 303385

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 23.06.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: delo, kadri, pandemija

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Funding programme: Raziskovalni program
• Project number: P5-0128
• Name: Izzivi vključujočega in trajnostnega razvoja v prevladujoči paradigmi ekonomskih in poslovnih znanosti