Permanent record · RIR–2073
Long-term Psychological Impacts of Unpaid Care Work Imbalance on Lone Parents and Families
The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted significant gender disparities in unpaid care work and their subsequent impact on mental health. This research investigates the long-term psychological consequences of these imbalances for lone parents and dual-earner households.
To what extent do persistent gender imbalances in unpaid care work contribute to long-term psychological distress in lone-parent households?
Knowledge gap
What remains worth asking
The source suggests that care work imbalances correlate with distress, but it remains useful to test the longitudinal effects beyond the immediate pandemic period.
Potential contribution
Why it may matter
Findings could support the development of more equitable workplace policies and social support systems for working parents.
Academic placement
OECD fields and topic tags
Scope: Working parents in urban and rural settings. · Method signals: Longitudinal regression analysis, Survey research
Possible study pathways
One question, different levels
Social policy and health equity
Sociology of work and family
Qualification signal
85/100
- Utilizes existing longitudinal datasets
- Focuses on mental health outcomes
- Open-access scholarly source and DOI metadata verified
Provenance
Research Idea Registry curation
- DOI and bibliographic metadata independently resolved
- Open-access status verified
- The research direction is transparently marked as AI-inferred
APA 7 source
Xue, B., & McMunn, A. (2021). Gender differences in unpaid care work and psychological distress in the UK Covid-19 lockdown. PLOS ONE, 16(3), e0247959. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247959
Paper abstract and discussion context; AI-inferred direction
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