Gender roles and parental time allocation: A paradigm shift for addressing gender inequality in the labor market

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Professor Sevilla will present a new framework for understanding the persistence of gender inequality, moving beyond traditional childcare time use measures. As part of the Public Policy Frontiers series, Professor Almudena Sevilla will present a new framework for understanding the persistence of gender inequality by moving beyond traditional measures of childcare time. Drawing on recent advances in the economics of the family, the talk introduces the concept of on call care the continuous responsibility, monitoring, and availability associated with parenting that is largely invisible in standard time use data. Using a pseudo panel event study based on the 2003–2022 American Time Use Survey ATUS , Professor Sevilla shows that while primary interactive childcare explain…

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