The impact of COVID-19 on the gender division of childcare work in Hungary
The impact of COVID-19 on the gender division of childcare work in Hungary
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DOI：
10.1080/14616696.2020.1817522
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发表时间：
2020-09-16
影响因子：
8.1
通讯作者：
Kovats, Eszter
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作者：
Fodor, Eva;Gregor, Aniko;Kovats, Eszter
与大多数其他欧盟国家一样，匈牙利在疫情期间实施了严厉的封锁措施，包括关闭学校和托儿设施。这意味着在接下来的几个月里，大量的儿童保育服务必须由各个家庭提供，而没有太多的机构帮助。 2020 年 5 月底，我们在匈牙利进行了一项代表性调查，以了解疫情如何影响这些育儿职责的性别划分。我们发现，平均而言，相对而言，男性的缴款增幅与女性大致相同（35%）。但鉴于女性在大流行之前承担了更多的育儿工作，从绝对值来看，女性的贡献增幅明显高于男性，而且从绝对工作时间来看，男性和女性之间的差距也在扩大。对于特定的女性群体来说尤其如此：中产阶级、受过高等教育的城市居民。我们的数据表明，在匈牙利，疫情加剧了受教育程度最高的性别不平等现象。
As most other EU countries, Hungary implemented severe lockdown measures during the pandemic, including the closure of the schools and childcare facilities. This meant that for several months a vastly increased volume of childcare had to be supplied by individual households without much institutional help. In the end of May 2020, we conducted a representative survey in Hungary to find out how the pandemic affected the gendered division of these childcare duties. We found that on average, in relative terms, men have increased their contributions at roughly the same rate (by 35 percent) as women. But given that women had been doing a lot more childcare work before the pandemic, in absolute terms, women's contributions grew significantly more than men's and the gap between men and women has increased in absolute work hour terms. This was particularly so among a specific group of women: middle class, highly educated city-dwellers. Our data suggest that in Hungary the pandemic increased gender inequality the most among the highest educated.