Volume 46 - Article 34 | Pages 1007–1036

Who took care of what? The gender division of unpaid work during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in France

By Marta Pasqualini, Marta Dominguez Folgueras, Emanuele Ferragina, Olivier Godechot, Ettore Recchi, Mirna Safi

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