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The MERIT - MothER Income InequaliTy project will produce knowledge about the impact of motherhood in women’s income and careers, and will produce a combination of concrete public policy proposals to minimize asymmetries and promote gender equality in the labour market, especially through motherhood. The project will achieve to estimate the impact of motherhood on wages and pensions and to compare it with fatherhood; to estimate the impact of motherhood on work life and to compare it with fatherhood; to analyse the impact of motherhood on income specifically during the pandemic.To analyse the working conditions and gender asymmetries that arose during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic; to develop a comparative analysis on social and labour policies at the European level, regarding policies related to family support such as maternity/parental leave and work-family balance policies; to develop recommendations that mitigate the impact of motherhood on income and gender asymmetries.