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Early Signs Indicate That COVID-19 Is Exacerbating Gender Inequality in the Labor Force
In this data visualization, the authors examine how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis in the United States has affected labor force participation, unemployment, and work hours across gender and parental status. Using data from the Current Population Survey, the authors compare estimates...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7399570/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34192138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2378023120947997 |
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author | Landivar, Liana Christin Ruppanner, Leah Scarborough, William J. Collins, Caitlyn |
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description | In this data visualization, the authors examine how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis in the United States has affected labor force participation, unemployment, and work hours across gender and parental status. Using data from the Current Population Survey, the authors compare estimates between February and April 2020 to examine the period of time before the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States to the height of the first wave, when stay-at-home orders were issued across the country. The findings illustrate that women, particularly mothers, have employment disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Mothers are more likely than fathers to exit the labor force and become unemployed. Among heterosexual married couples of which both partners work in telecommuting-capable occupations, mothers have scaled back their work hours to a far greater extent than fathers. These patterns suggest that the COVID-19 crisis is already worsening existing gender inequality, with long-term implications for women’s employment. |
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spelling | pubmed-73995702020-08-04 Early Signs Indicate That COVID-19 Is Exacerbating Gender Inequality in the Labor Force Landivar, Liana Christin Ruppanner, Leah Scarborough, William J. Collins, Caitlyn Socius Data Visualization In this data visualization, the authors examine how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis in the United States has affected labor force participation, unemployment, and work hours across gender and parental status. Using data from the Current Population Survey, the authors compare estimates between February and April 2020 to examine the period of time before the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States to the height of the first wave, when stay-at-home orders were issued across the country. The findings illustrate that women, particularly mothers, have employment disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Mothers are more likely than fathers to exit the labor force and become unemployed. Among heterosexual married couples of which both partners work in telecommuting-capable occupations, mothers have scaled back their work hours to a far greater extent than fathers. These patterns suggest that the COVID-19 crisis is already worsening existing gender inequality, with long-term implications for women’s employment. SAGE Publications 2020-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7399570/ /pubmed/34192138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2378023120947997 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Data Visualization Landivar, Liana Christin Ruppanner, Leah Scarborough, William J. Collins, Caitlyn Early Signs Indicate That COVID-19 Is Exacerbating Gender Inequality in the Labor Force |
title | Early Signs Indicate That COVID-19 Is Exacerbating Gender Inequality in the Labor Force |
title_full | Early Signs Indicate That COVID-19 Is Exacerbating Gender Inequality in the Labor Force |
title_fullStr | Early Signs Indicate That COVID-19 Is Exacerbating Gender Inequality in the Labor Force |
title_full_unstemmed | Early Signs Indicate That COVID-19 Is Exacerbating Gender Inequality in the Labor Force |
title_short | Early Signs Indicate That COVID-19 Is Exacerbating Gender Inequality in the Labor Force |
title_sort | early signs indicate that covid-19 is exacerbating gender inequality in the labor force |
topic | Data Visualization |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7399570/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34192138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2378023120947997 |
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