Being on call for teenagers is the missing piece in the gender pay gap debate

Sevilla Sanz, Maria Almudena ORCID: 0000-0001-6143-5903 (2025) Being on call for teenagers is the missing piece in the gender pay gap debate. LSE Business Review (29 Sep 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

The “child penalty” phenomenon describes how women’s working hours and income change after they have a baby. This knowledge has helped drive government support for parents of pre-school children. However, a mother’s work continues beyond their children’s early years. Almudena Sevilla shows that even once the hands-on childcare years have passed, mothers spend twice as much time as fathers “on call”, providing supervision and support to their teenagers.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Social Policy
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Date Deposited:	09 Oct 2025 15:09
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2025 13:15
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129731

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