Time use, childcare and home schooling

Jelena Todorovic; Philippe Van Kerm; Eugenio Peluso

Time use, childcare and home schooling

Jelena Todorovic, Philippe Van Kerm, Eugenio Peluso

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Research output: Other contribution

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected households around the globe in many dimensions. Governments’ responses to the public health crisis have almost brought economies to a halt and unemployment rates have jumped to historical highs.
Work conditions for those who remained employed changed abruptly, with many being forced to work from home. As schools and daycare centres closed, child-care needs soared. Social distancing recommendations and stay-at-home orders made it difficult, if not impossible, for informal care providers, such as grandparents or other family members, to help with child-care responsibilities. So how did parents cope? (...)

Original language	English
Publisher	LISER
Number of pages	12
Place of Publication	Esch-Belval
Publication status	Published - 18 Nov 2021

Publication series

Name	LISER-MEGA series on gender issues in the COVID-19 pandemic
Publisher	LISER, Gouvernement du Luxembourg, Ministère de l’Égalité entre les femmes et les hommes (MEGA)
No.	2

Bibliographical note

This is the second of a series of notes about gender dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each note focuses on a particular dimension of gendered impacts of the crisis. It first quickly reviews relevant academic and policy research and presents the views of selected national or international experts about what happened and what can be done.

Keywords

COVID-19
pandemic
childcare
home schooling

LISER Collections

LISER-MEGA series on gender dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic

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COGEL-19: COVID-19 and Gender Equality in Luxembourg
Peluso, E., Chen, S., Genevois, A., Van Kerm, P., Verheyden, B. & Menta, G.
Ministère de l'Égalité entre les femmes et les hommes (MEGA)
1/01/21 → 31/12/21
Project: Research

6 Other contribution

Inflation et inégalités de genre au Luxembourg. Consommation et épargne
Peluso, E. & Sologon, D. M., 21 Jul 2023, 5 p. Esch-Belval : LISER.
Research output: Other contribution

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Différences entre les femmes et les hommes concernant les attitudes vis-à-vis des mesures sanitaires
Todorovic, J. & Verheyden, B., 27 Sept 2022, 14 p. Esch-Belval : LISER.
Research output: Other contribution

Open Access
File
Gender differences in attitudes towards COVID-19 and sanitary measures
Todorovic, J. & Verheyden, B., 27 Sept 2022, 13 p. Esch-Belval : LISER.
Research output: Other contribution

Open Access
File
Emploi et temps de travail des femmes et des hommes pendant la pandémie
Todorovic, J., Van Kerm, P. & Peluso, E., 17 Aug 2021, 9 p. Esch-Belval : LISER.
Research output: Other contribution

Open Access
File
Unemployment and working hours of women and men during the pandemic
Todorovic, J., Van Kerm, P. & Peluso, E., 17 Aug 2021, 8 p. Esch-Belval : LISER.
Research output: Other contribution

Open Access
File

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Time use, childcare and home schooling

Abstract

Publication series

Bibliographical note

Keywords

LISER Collections

Access to Document

Projects

COGEL-19: COVID-19 and Gender Equality in Luxembourg

Research output

Inflation et inégalités de genre au Luxembourg. Consommation et épargne

Différences entre les femmes et les hommes concernant les attitudes vis-à-vis des mesures sanitaires

Gender differences in attitudes towards COVID-19 and sanitary measures

Emploi et temps de travail des femmes et des hommes pendant la pandémie

Unemployment and working hours of women and men during the pandemic

Cite this