CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Burjel, Tania |
|---|---|
| Title | Work in the time of Corona: Gender differential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on parent's working hours in Uruguay |
| Summary | Uruguay has faced the current COVID-19 pandemic under particular conditions. Without imposing enforced mobility restriction policies, but maintaining the total or partial closure of educational centers for more than a year, the pandemic has imposed new challenges in the gender distribution of work within households. This study explores the results from a survey conducted by UN Women and UNICEF during the last week of April 2020 with the objective of analyzing the early effects of the pandemic on parent’s paid and unpaid working hours in Uruguay. Findings indicate a larger decrease in paid work compared to the increase in unpaid work, being mothers more affected than fathers. However, the analysis shows that the differences by gender are not significant, indicating that the characteristics that are significantly associated with the working pattern changes are: the age of the youngest children and parents’ educational level. The study found a significant decrease in paid working hours of parents with school-age children, consistent with the policy of school closures during the pandemic. At the same time, in these households, it is mothers who experience a larger increase in unpaid work hours, compared to fathers. Finally, it is middle and highly educated parents who increase unpaid work hours the most, suggesting that during the pandemic gender gaps in unpaid work have narrowed for highly educated parents compared to low educated ones. |
| Supervisor | Murugesan, Anand |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/burjel_tania.pdf |
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