Re-traditionalization of gender roles as reaction to the Corona crisis?

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19
  • start year

    2020
  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung
  • Principal Investigator

    Prof Dr Michael Braun
  • Research Location

    Germany
  • Lead Research Institution

    GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A
  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Social impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    Gender

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

There is considerable concern among scholars and in the society at large that a re-traditionalization of gender roles will occur in the wake of the Corona crisis, undoing most of what has been achieved and taken for granted in the last decades in the direction of less gender inequality. Using extant data and a short specialized survey, the project will outline criteria for different scenarios of the pandemic. Policy measures useful to bolster the feasibility of combining work and family roles against the effects of the crisis will be outlined.