id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-272923-5ekgb0zx Hjálmsdóttir, Andrea “I have turned into a foreman here at home.” Families and work‐life balance in times of Covid‐19 in a gender equality paradise. 2020-09-19 .txt text/plain 8412 472 64 In Iceland, as elsewhere, women work part-time jobs in higher numbers, and mothers reduce their labor participation following childbirth more often than do fathers (Gíslason & Símonardóttir, 2018) . In the following example, a mother of a 2-year-old working in mass media, who worked entirely from home as did her husband, described one of her days like this: "I'm a little anxious because of all this, the situation in society. This is in accordance with previous studies on gendered control of time among parents (Bryson, 2016; Friedman, 2015) and new research conducted during Covid-19 that indicate that unpaid work performed by mothers has increased during the pandemic (Craig & Churchill, 2020; Manzo & Minello, 2020) . One of the patterns identified in the reflections of the women in our study was how they seemed to be stunned by how uneven the division of labor turned out to be during the pandemic and how much time and energy they devoted to household chores and the management of the household, carrying out the mental work within the family. ./cache/cord-272923-5ekgb0zx.txt ./txt/cord-272923-5ekgb0zx.txt