Caring Under COVID-19: How the Pandemic Is – and Is Not – Changing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work Responsibilities in the United States

  • Brian Heilman, María Rosario, Castro Bernardini, et al

Summary

Unpaid care and domestic work – specifically cooking, cleaning, and shopping for the family – are taking up the largest share of respondents’ days during the COVID-19 pandemic, reveals a new poll on unpaid care and domestic work in the United States, launched today by Oxfam and Promundo, as an initiative of MenCare: A Global Fatherhood Campaign. The report, under the title Caring Under COVID-19: How the Pandemic Is – and Is Not – Changing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work Responsibilities in the United States, demonstrates how COVID-19 has brought an unprecedented crisis of care in the United States, with a particular workload being taken on by women as a group, and Black, Latinx, and Asian individuals.

Citation

Heilman, Brian, et al. “Caring Under COVID-19: How the Pandemic Is – and Is Not – Changing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work Responsibilities in the United States.” Promundo and Oxfam. 2020.

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