Covid-19 and The Gender Gap in Employment Among Parents of Young Children in Canada
Covid-19 and The Gender Gap in Employment Among Parents of Young Children in Canada
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DOI：
10.1177/08912432211001287
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发表时间：
2021-03-19
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影响因子：
5.5
通讯作者：
Qian, Yue
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作者：
Fuller, Sylvia;Qian, Yue
新冠肺炎疫情对经济和社会造成的破坏对性别和阶级不平等具有重要影响。根据加拿大统计局的月度劳动力调查，我们记录了大流行病(2020年2月至10月)期间就业和工作时间方面的性别差距的趋势。我们的发现突显了护理条款对性别平等的重要性，父母之间的差距比没有孩子的人更大，当护理和就业更难协调时，差距最为明显。当就业障碍减少时，性别-就业差距也减少了。这场大流行不能推翻长期存在的文化和结构变化，这些变化促使当代母亲就业。这一流行病还加剧了妇女之间的教育不平等，突显了通过跨部门视角评估性别影响的重要性。
Economic and social disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic have important implications for gender and class inequality. Drawing on Statistics Canada's monthly Labour Force Survey, we document trends in gender gaps in employment and work hours over the pandemic (February-October 2020). Our findings highlight the importance of care provisions for gender equity, with gaps larger among parents than people without children, and most pronounced when care and employment were more difficult to reconcile. When employment barriers eased, so did the gender-employment gap. The pandemic could not undo longer-standing cultural and structural shifts motivating contemporary mothers' employment. The pandemic also exacerbated educational inequalities among women, highlighting the importance of assessing gendered impacts through an intersectional lens.