Lockdown, unpaid care and mental health

Dr Baowen Xue and Professor Anne McMunn discuss how they used COVID19 data to look at how couples divided up unpaid care during lockdown, altered work patterns and the impact on  mental health

Show Notes

In this episode of the Lifecourse Podcast from the ESRC International Centre for life course studies at UCL Dr Baowen Xue and Professor Anne McMunn discuss how they used specially collected COVID19 data to look at how couples divided up housework, childcare and homeschooling during lockdown, who was most likely to change their work pattern and the impact on mental health. 

Further information

• Gender differences in the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on unpaid care work and psychological distress in the UK 

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