Women responsible for most parental duties during pandemic, StatsCan survey suggests Canadian women say they have performed most of the parental tasks in their household during the pandemic in a new study by Statistics Canada. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Dec 15, 2020 6:00 AM MT | Last Updated: December 15, 2020 Most men and women surveyed said that women take on the lion's share of duties for homeschooling. (Tyson Koschik/CBC) Canadian women say they have performed most of the parental tasks in their household during the pandemic. The results were published in a new survey by Statistics Canada. However, the survey also showed that men reported that the majority of those tasks — such as staying home with the children or taking them to and from school and daycare — were split equally.