COVID-19 and the gender gap in advanced economies | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Stefania Fabrizio, Vivian Malta, Marina M. Tavares New research has presented evidence that the gender gap in labour force participation in US has expanded during COVID-19 (Alon et al. 2020). This negative development is attributed to two factors – the disproportionate impact that the pandemic has had on sectors that tend to employ more women, and the increase in family caregiving responsibilities due to kindergarten and school closures that lay on working mothers’ shoulders. Both reasons keep women away from the labour force (Landivar et al. 2020). The US is hardly the average labour mar...
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