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February 14, 2026SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaOpen Access

Does Gender Ideology Matter? Pre-pandemic Gender Role Attitudes and the Division of Housework and Childcare During COVID-19 in Germany

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KFKatrin FirlGESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social SciencesAHAnna HebelGESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences

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This research examines the impact of pre-pandemic gender role attitudes on housework and childcare division during COVID-19, highlighting important implications.

Key Points

  • To investigate how pre-pandemic gender role attitudes affect the division of family labor during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.
  • Used Waves 11 and 13 of the German Family Panel ‘pairfam’
  • Analyzed heterosexual couples with and without children for housework division
  • Studied couples with at least one child for childcare division
  • Individuals with traditional gender role attitudes had a higher female share of family labor during the pandemic
  • Egalitarian men with reduced working hours took on more childcare than traditional men
  • No significant moderation of gender role attitudes on increased working hours affecting family labor division

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Firl et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/699010942ccff479cfe56de6https://doi.org/10.12765/cpos-2026-02
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