TY - JOUR A1 - Zartler, Ulrike A1 - Suwada, Katarzyna A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela T1 - Family lives during the COVID-19 pandemic in European Societies: Introduction to the Special Issue JF - Journal of Family Research N2 - Objective: This chapter introduces the reader to the Special Issue "Family Lives during the COVID-19 Pandemic in European Societies". Background: This Special Issue analyses how families, parents, and children have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they have been coping with its related challenges in different societal contexts. Method: The studies collected in this Special Issue are based on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches and data that have been gathered during 2020 in a range of European countries. It covers the first lockdown period, the reopening phases, and the months thereafter. Results: The 20 contributions of this Special Issue show that families shouldered large responsibilities during the pandemic. While the pandemic did not lead to radical shifts in gendered care patterns, mothers and fathers experienced the pandemic differently, with mothers reporting higher levels of stress. Moreover, there was great heterogeneity in how different types of families and children were affected by the pandemic. Single parents and parents and children in low-income households were most strongly affected in their social and economic wellbeing. Social and economic distress are strongly interwoven, and the developments during the pandemic aggravated existing social disparities. Conclusion: This Special Issue underlines the importance of the family for the functioning of societies during times of crisis. It also shows that policy makers often adopted a too narrow view of what constitutes a family and did not adequately address family diversity in their decision making. This Special Issue furthermore emphasized that there is a danger that the pandemic will increase disparities between families. Thus, parents and their children need adequate support measures that are tailored to their needs, and that are designed to alleviate these social, economic and educational disparities. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-808 VL - 34 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 15 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Naujoks, Tabea A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Dummert, Sandra T1 - The division of child care during the coronavirus crisis in Germany: How did short-time work affect fathers' engagement? JF - Journal of Family Research N2 - Objective: This paper examines how participation in the short-time work scheme affected the gendered division of child care during the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Background: Short-time work (Kurzarbeit) has been one of the main policies used to combat the economic and labour market repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic in Germany. We examine whether and, if so, how the growing prevalence of short-time work has affected care patterns. Method: We use data from the IAB-HOPP, a longitudinal study monitored by the German Institute for Employment Research (IAB). The analytical sample includes couples with children aged 12 and younger. We employ multinomial logistic regressions in which the outcome variable is the change in the division of care work from a period before to a period during the coronavirus crisis (June to October 2020). Results: We find that among men, receiving short-time work benefits resulted in more gender-equal care patterns. The positive effect of short-time work on the division of child care is moderated by the level of education. Fathers with low or medium education are more likely to increase their child care share when receiving short-time work benefits compared to fathers with high education. However, we also find that participating in the short-time work programme had no strong or significant effects on the gendered division of care among women. Conclusion: The evidence from this study suggests that men’s working time is a major vehicle to change the gendered division of care in couple households. KW - father's involvement, employment, Germany, gendered division of care Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-717 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Globisch, Claudia A1 - Müller, Dana A1 - Fuchs, Michaela A1 - Christoph, Bernhard A1 - Danneck, Viktoria A1 - Dummert, Sandra A1 - Volkert, Marieke A1 - Abendroth, Anja A1 - Anger, Silke A1 - Boll, Christina A1 - Carstensen, Tanja A1 - Fervers, Lukas A1 - Hipp, Lena A1 - Jacob, Marita A1 - Knize, Veronika A1 - Kreyenfeld, Michaela A1 - Lott, Yvonne A1 - Naujoks, Tabea A1 - Sauermann, Armin A1 - Schüller, Simone A1 - Tobler, Lina T1 - Aufteilung der Sorge- und Erwerbsarbeit zwischen Frauen und Männern: In der Pandemie ändern sich Geschlechterrollen kaum T2 - IAB-Kurzbericht Y1 - 2022 IS - 05 ER -