Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Altered the Traditional View about Women's Active Work?

TL;DR

This study examines how perceptions of women's active work shifted due to COVID-19, revealing changes in attitudes across gender, age, and marital status using panel data from 2016 to 2024.

Contribution

It provides new insights into how the COVID-19 pandemic altered societal views on women's active work across different demographic groups.

Findings

Men's positive view increased after COVID-19.

Women became more likely to view women's active work positively after COVID-19.

Older individuals and married men showed increased positive perceptions post-pandemic.

Abstract

This study investigates how the view about women's active work changed after the outbreak of the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) disease. We use individual-level panel data from 2016 to 2024 that cover the period before and after the pandemic. The major findings are as follows: (1) men were more likely to have a positive view than women before COVID-19, whereas women became more likely to have a positive view compared to men after COVID-19; (2) both of men and women were more likely to have a positive view after COVID-19; (3) regardless of the respondents' genders, before COVID-19, older people were less likely to have a positive view; after the COVID-19 outbreak, they became more likely to have a positive view; and (4) married men became more likely to have positive view after COVID-19.