Who cares when care closes? Care-arrangements and parental working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

Gundula Zoch · Ann‐Christin Bächmann · Basha Vicari

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Work-Family Balance Challenges Family Dynamics and Relationships Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

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This study examines the short-term consequences for care-arrangements among working parents, who were affected by the closure of schools and institutional childcare as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. By applying multinomial logistic regression models to novel data from two panel surveys of the National Educational Panel Study and its supplementary COVID-19 web survey, the study finds that mothers continue to play a key role in the care-arrangements during the first months of the pandemic. Moreover, the results illustrate the importance of working conditions, especially the possibility of remote work for the altered care-arrangements. Overall, the findings point towards systematic gender differences in the relationship between parental working conditions and the care-arrangements.

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