To foster gender equality and involve fathers in parenting, leave-from-work targeted at fathers has been implemented in many countries. In France, until 2021, fathers can avail of a statutory paid paternity leave of 11 working-days that must be taken within 4 months after childbirth. This article estimates the impact of this short-duration and larg...
ObjectiveTelework was massively adopted during the COVID-19 crisis. Related changes in working conditions may have affected women's and men's health differently due to the gendered division of work. Our study aimed to assess the gendered association of telework with physical and mental health outcomes one year after the onset of the pandemic and to...
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The sudden and unanticipated shocks to employment and the almost total retreat into the domestic sphere caused by the COVID-19 lockdowns provide a unique opportunity to explore the resilience of the three classical theoretical paradigms of the gendered division of labor within couples, that is, the time availability theory, the relative resource th...
Afin de comprendre pourquoi l'égalité professionnelle entre les femmes et les hommes, exigée par le droit, n'est pas encore pleinement effective, Dominique Meurs propose dans cet ouvrage une synthèse des analyses les plus récentes réalisées par des économistes. Selon le Code du travail, il « incombe à l'employeur de prendre en compte les objectifs ...
France was under a “hard” lockdown from the end of March 2020 to the beginning of May 2020. Outings had to remain minimal and most activities outside home were closed; school, day-care facilities and most compagnies included. Parents had to contribute to childcare, doing classroom, homework and extracurricular activities at home, sometimes while wo...
Over the past decades, men's and women's time use in industrialized nations has changed dramatically, suggesting a gender revolution. Women increased their time in paid work and reduced time in unpaid activities, while men increased their time in unpaid work, but not enough to compensate for women's retreat. We investigate developments regarding me...
