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. 2021 Oct 5;56(5):254–260. doi: 10.1007/s10272-021-0994-5

Gender Differences in the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Employment, Unpaid Work and Well-Being in the EU

Sanna Nivakoski 1,✉, Massimiliano Mascherini 1,✉
PMCID: PMC8490839  PMID: 34629500

Abstract

Unpaid work carried out inside the home has increased in the pandemic, and evidence points to women’s share in care responsibilities and domestic tasks remaining higher than those of men in the pandemic, continuing the gender divides of past decades.

Footnotes

Sanna Nivakoski, Eurofound, Dublin, Ireland.

Massimiliano Mascherini, Eurofound, Dublin, Ireland.

Contributor Information

Sanna Nivakoski, Email: Sanna.Nivakoski@eurofound.europa.eu.

Massimiliano Mascherini, Email: Massimiliano.Mascherini@eurofound.europa.eu.

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