Inside the Black Box: Intra-household Inequality and a Gendered Pandemic

Deepak Malghan and Hema Swaminathan (hema.swaminathan@iimb.ernet.in)

No 797, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: Emerging evidence suggests that COVID-19 has amplified existing gender divisions that disadvantage women. What is the appropriate unit of analysis to study the gendered impact of a pandemic? The study of gendered inequality – especially labor market opportunities and outcomes – has for the large part relied on population wide differences between men and women. Using over four decades of global data (n =2.85 million couple units, from 45 countries in the LIS repository) we show that intra-household earnings inequality within a household is systemic, prevalent across disparate societies, and across the entire earnings distribution. Our analysis shows why accounting for intra-household gender inequality is crucial to ameliorating the pandemic’s gendered impact.

Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2020-07
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