provides a unique opportunity to study differences in time use and swb for two primary reasons first recent estimates from the gallup organization suggested that the average number of days that people around the world have worked from home has more than doubled during the pandemic as compared with autumn 2019this has likely resulted in many households having both household members working from home which should in theory equalize or at least reduce the gender gap in time spent on necessities between mothers and fathers second recent estimates suggested that in the united states alone the daily commute has saved working adults 89 million h each week since the pandemic startedreduced commutes could also leave people with more time to engage in leisure activities thus we might expect individuals to engage in more vs less active leisure and to exhibit greater selfreported happiness as a result of this increase in leisure activitiesto explore the question of how people are spending their time and whether and how time use is shaping swb during covid19 the researchers implemented nine surveys between midmarch and midjune 2020 including nationally representative surveys of respondents living in the united states n 441 and canada n 840 working parents living in the united states n 401 public sector workers living in spain n 975 employed adults working from home in the united states n 1518 brazil n 21874 and globally n 935 college students from denmark n 3233 and college students primarily studying in the united states n 924the researchers surveyed the us student sample again after one month the researchers measured swb across all samples by asking respondents to rate their overall life satisfactionrespondents also reported how much time they allocated to various activities on a typical day during the pandemic the primary timeuse outcomes included necessities overall leisure and work hours time spent on necessities was typically a composite measure of household chores and taking care of othersfamily time overall leisure was a composite of active for example exercising and passive leisure for example watching tvtime spent working as a composite of time spent working for pay or studying in student samplesthe researchers first examined how time use varied by sociodemographic groups for example income education parental status and relationship status or household size then they looked at how swb differed by sociodemographic group although they examined various sociodemographic groups as per our preregistration the most reliable results we observed were differences in time use by gender and differences in time use by gender and parental status they therefore focus on these comparisonsbased on the analysis researchers found that women spent more time on necessities compared to men more specifically women spent more time on household chores and caretaking tasks during covid19these gender differences were stronger for parents in a subsample of working adults n 24327 the researchers also measured respondents time use in a typical day prior to the pandemicexploratory analysis indicated a significant