Working from home? It’s so much nicer if you’re a man | Emma Beddington

Not because it’s my experience: my husband and I are lucky enough to have an office each, and mine is bigger and objectively nicer. Structural pay equalities meant men – habitually the higher earners – staked the more obvious primary claim on working space in locked-down homes. “My husband locks the room from the inside when he needs to concentrate,” a participant in an Indian study on pandemic working habits reported. Now we’re ostensibly all in it together, doing conference calls in our slippers, but there are still more man caves than women’s. But in real life, generally, women’s work is still given less and worse space, while the gender pay gap narrows agonisingly slowly.