Gender differences in domestic work during COVID 19 in Uruguay

Amábile, Florencia - Bucheli, Marisa - González, Cecilia - Lara Martínez, Cecilia

Resumen:

The pandemic generated by Covid - 19 caused a shock that would change household s’ distribution of domestic work. Based on a survey conducted in 2020 in Uruguay, this paper analyzes changes in the hours devoted to childcare and housework of a sample of highly educated population living with a partner. We find that women and men increased their hours of domestic work, and this is related to decreasing time in the labor market, but there is no relationship with spouses’ time in paid work. The rise (decline) of female (male) time in the labor market leads to equal sharing of couples’ domestic work. Finally, the respondents declared that the increase in their domestic work was more intensive than their partners, with women in particular stating they did more housework than men. The sharing domestic work gap tended to decline, but the final result is sensitive to the gender of the respondent.


La pandemia generada por Covid - 19 provocó un shock que podría cambiar la distribución del trabajo doméstico en los hogares. Basado en una encuesta realizada en 2020 en Uruguay, este trabajo analiza los cambios en las horas dedicadas al cuidado de los niños y las tareas del hogar de una muestra de población con alto nivel educativo que vive en pareja. Encontramos que mujeres y hombres aumentaron sus horas de trabajo doméstico, y esto está relacionado con la disminución del tiempo en el mercado laboral, pero no existe relación con el tiempo de los cónyuges en el trabajo remunerado. El aumento (disminución) del tiempo de trabajo de las mujeres (hombres) en el mercado laboral conduce a un reparto equitativo del trabajo doméstico de las parejas. Finalmente, los encuestados declararon que el aumento del trabajo doméstico propio fue más intenso que el de sus parejas, y las mujeres en particular afirmaron que realizaron más tareas domésticas que los hombres. La brecha en la proporción de trabajo doméstico realizado por las mujeres se redujo, pero el resultado final es sensible al género del encuestado.


Detalles Bibliográficos
2021
Covid-19
Fender time use gap
Domestic work
Childcare
Housework
Brecha de género en el uso del tiempo
Trabajo doméstico
Cuidado de niños
Tareas del hogar
ECONOMIA
Inglés
Universidad de la República
COLIBRI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/30428
Acceso abierto
Licencia Creative Commons Atribución - No Comercial - Sin Derivadas (CC - By-NC-ND 4.0)
Resumen:
Sumario:The pandemic generated by Covid - 19 caused a shock that would change household s’ distribution of domestic work. Based on a survey conducted in 2020 in Uruguay, this paper analyzes changes in the hours devoted to childcare and housework of a sample of highly educated population living with a partner. We find that women and men increased their hours of domestic work, and this is related to decreasing time in the labor market, but there is no relationship with spouses’ time in paid work. The rise (decline) of female (male) time in the labor market leads to equal sharing of couples’ domestic work. Finally, the respondents declared that the increase in their domestic work was more intensive than their partners, with women in particular stating they did more housework than men. The sharing domestic work gap tended to decline, but the final result is sensitive to the gender of the respondent.