COVID-19 Disruptions Disproportionately Affect Female Academics
By T. Deryugina, Olga Shurchkov, Jenna Stearns. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021
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The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent countermeasures disrupted economic activity around the world. We investigate the effects of COVID-19 disruptions on the gender gap in academia. We administer a global survey of academics to collect nuanced data on the respondents' circumstances, such as the number and ages of children and time use. All academics report substantial increases in childcare and housework burdens, but women experienced significantly larger increases than men. Female academics with children report a disproportionate reduction in research time, both relative to childless men and women and to male academics with children.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
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- The Pandemic Penalty: The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Scientific Productivity (2020, background): “Women academics with children at home report spending an average of half an hour less per day than men with children and an hour less per day than their men colleagues without children on research during the pandemic, along with increases in childcare and housework (Deryugina et al. 2021).”