Content with the tag: cuidado parental
Infodata
Feminisation of care work
November 2021
In Spain, 10% of women perform care work, by far exceeding the 5% of male carers.
Article
Do fathers spend more time with their children than they used to?
January 2021
Tomás Cano, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and Universitat Pompeu Fabra;
According to this study, in comparison with the year 2002, in 2010 there was an increase in the time that mothers, and even more so fathers, devoted to their children. Despite this, the gender gap persists.
Article
Housework and childcare during the lockdown, tasks undertaken mainly by women
September 2020
Lídia Farré, Universitat de Barcelona and IAE-CSIC; Libertad González, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE;
Despite a slight increase in participation by men, this study shows that housework and childcare represented a heavier workload for women during the lockdown.
Article
What is the value of domestic work in Spain?
December 2019
Marta Dominguez Folgueras, Department of Sociology of Sciences Po (Paris Institute of Political Studies);
Caring for children and dependent elderly people, cooking, cleaning the house… what economic value can we attribute to unpaid domestic tasks? We calculate what this invisible work would represent for Spain’s GDP.