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https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2131590
Women’s decision-making on additional unpaid work during the COVID-19 pandemic: assessing the role of finance
Ana Rimac Smiljanić
Sandra Pepur
Ivana Bulog
Sažetak
This article investigates the determinants of women’s additional
unpaid work during the specific circumstances of the COVID-19
pandemic lockdown. Apart from the influential factors usually
investigated in the standard model of unpaid work, we contribute
to recent research by including variables such as financial literacy
and family financial fragility. Pandemic lockdown altered the normal
functioning of families and created financial uncertainty.
Thus, we hypothesised that women’s financial literacy and family
financial fragility influenced women’s decision to take on less or
more unpaid work and could alter the division of unpaid work
between women and other family members. We employed realtime
individual-level data from the survey that we conducted during
the second lockdown restrictions in January and February
2021. Croatia is an interesting case to investigate unpaid work
determinants because although it has joined the E.U. and
accepted positive legal aspects of gender equality, conservative
gender norms still dominate there. The results revealed that women’s
financial literacy negatively affects women’s willingness to
take on more unpaid work while the deteriorating family financial
situation in the pandemic has a positive effect
Ključne riječi
unpaid work; women; financial literacy; pandemic; decision-making; financial fragility
Hrčak ID:
306679
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.4.2023.
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