Gender inequality in unpaid care work during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-country comparison of France, Germany, Italy, and the UK
Book Chapter, Social life during COVID-19 in France, Germany, Italy and the UK, Ch. 5 - November 11, 2025
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Gender implications of new assortative mating patterns: mating down and sharing more equally the domestic work?
Journal Article - November 3, 2025
Characteristics and population estimates of unpaid end of life carers: an observational study
Journal Article - September 7, 2025
The unchanging divide: housework and labor responsibilities in late family stages
Journal Article - August 13, 2025
Understanding the characteristics of unpaid carers living in financial hardship: risks and vulnerabilities
Journal Article - August 1, 2025
The gendered division of housework in times of Covid-19: the role of essential worker status and work location
Journal Article - July 27, 2025
Millions struggle with financial, health and housing insecurity
Media - June 6, 2025
‘Stress crisis’ in UK as 5m struggle with financial, health and housing insecurity
Media - June 6, 2025
Insecure lives: the growth and impact of multiple insecurities
Report, CASEreport, 159 - June 6, 2025
The care expectation gap
Report - May 28, 2025
Mapping progress: findings from the Gender Equality Index UK
Report - May 15, 2025
Labor outcomes after employer-provided training: evidence from the Understanding Society survey
Journal Article - April 1, 2025
Housework and psychological distress during the COVID-19 crisis: a gender- and context-sensitive relationship?
Journal Article - March 28, 2025
Competing demands on adult children: how do they shape their provision of informal care?
Journal Article - March 1, 2025
Written evidence submitted by the Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (ASC0029) [House of Commons. Health and Social Care Committee. Adult social care reform: the cost of inaction inquiry]
Parliamentary Paper - January 29, 2025
Caring for two generations: study highlights mental health struggles of sandwich carers
Media - January 9, 2025
Do mental and physical health trajectories change around transitions into sandwich care? Results from the UK household longitudinal study
Journal Article - January 8, 2025
‘Sandwich carers’ suffer poorer mental and physical health, research suggests
Media - January 7, 2025
‘Sandwich carers’ suffer poorer mental and physical health, research suggests
Media - January 7, 2025
‘Sandwich carers’ experience decline in mental and physical health
Media - January 7, 2025
‘Sandwich carers’ suffer poorer mental and physical health, research suggests
Media - January 7, 2025
Study shows ‘sandwich carers’ experience decline in mental and physical health
Media - January 6, 2025
Unpaid caring and heath-related quality of life: longitudinal analysis of Understanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Survey)
Journal Article - January 1, 2025
The unchanging divide: housework and labour responsibilities in late family stages
Research Paper - December 30, 2024
Beyond the ideal: unravelling the complexities of overqualification, employee volunteering and job satisfaction
Journal Article - December 16, 2024
How does bereavement affect the health‑related quality of life of household members who do and do not provide unpaid care? Difference‑in‑Difference analyses using the UK Household Longitudinal Survey
Journal Article - December 5, 2024
Delivering ‘50 PLUS Choices’ in the UK: how compatible are ‘fuller working lives’ with an increasing reliance on informal carers to deliver social care?
Journal Article - November 29, 2024
Sandwich care in the UK: how common is it and who is doing it?
Journal Article - October 22, 2024
Differences by ethnicity in the association between unpaid caring and health trajectories over 10 years in the UK Household Longitudinal Study
Journal Article - September 30, 2024
Woman of the North: inequality, health and work
Report - September 2, 2024
Caring is not always sharing: a scoping review exploring how COVID-19 containment measures have impacted unpaid care work and mental health among women and men in Europe
Journal Article - August 30, 2024
The future of care needs: a whole systems approach
Report - August 22, 2024