ArticleJournal of family issues2023
He's Working from Home and I'm at Home Trying to Work: Experiences of Childcare and the Work-Family Balance Among Mothers During COVID-19.
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- The work-family interface and the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
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- "It made me feel like a shit parent": an intersectional analysis of pandemic mothering.Frontiers in sociology · 2024Article
- Adjusting Parenting Roles and Work Expectations among Women with Children during COVID-19.Families in society : the journal of contemporary human services · 2024Article
- How digitalization reinvented entrepreneurial resilience during COVID-19.Technological forecasting and social change · 2023Article
- General practitioner well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Parental mental health and child anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
- Work from home and parenting: Examining the role of work-family conflict and gender during the COVID-19 pandemic.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
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Abstract
This article captures mothers' experiences of the work-family balance and division of household labor during the initial COVID-19 lockdown. Interviews were conducted with twenty-five academics and twenty professionals in other fields. Mothers who split childcare with their partners had a more positive experience of the work-family balance during lockdown, compared with mothers who did the majority of the childcare. The present study adds a new wrinkle into the literature on flexibility and work-family balance: the perception of flexibility and its impact on the division of labor. Academic mothers, who had always had highly "flexible" jobs, were less likely to split childcare with their partners pre-pandemic and thus less likely to have positive experiences of work-family balance during the Spring 2020 lockdown. I argue that perceived flexibility of a partner's job affected allocation of childcare during the initial stages of the pandemic, a moment that wreaked significant harm on women's careers.
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