Couples in Lockdown: « La vie en rose »?

Titre traduit de la contribution: Les couples pendant le confinement: « La vie en rose »?

Hugues Champeaux, Francesca Marchetta

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Résumé

Stay-at-home policies during the COVID-19 pandemic challenged household members who faced forced cohabitation and increased housework (domestic chores and childcare). Based on individual data collected online from partnered women during the spring 2020 in France, we study the lockdown effects on housework division and conflicts between partners. We find that during the lockdown, couples experienced minor changes in the allocation of housework, mainly carried out by women. Simultaneously, men increased their participation in the production of household goods mainly through “enjoyable” or “quasi-leisure” activities. Our results suggest that the gendered connotation of domestic work can be context-dependent and not stable over time. Tensions between partners, reported by women, increased during the lockdown, and appear to be strongly correlated with an unequal division of housework. Overall, our results suggest that this period did not structurally affect the gender stereotypes at home.

Titre traduit de la contributionLes couples pendant le confinement: « La vie en rose »?
langue originaleAnglais
Pages (de - à)27-50
Nombre de pages24
journalEconomie et statistique
Volume2022
Numéro de publication536-537
Les DOIs
Etat de la publicationPublié - 2022

mots-clés

  • childcare
  • COVID-19
  • gender roles
  • housework
  • intrahousehold tensions

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