Gender roles and dynamics in COVID-19 times: Changes and continuities in sharing arrangements of housework and caregiving

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Autor(a) principal: Santos,Maria Helena
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Rosa,Miriam, Correia,Rita B., Xavier,Eduardo
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
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Resumo: Abstract This paper intends to understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on shared unpaid work between men and women living as a couple during the confinement, to assess whether this situation influenced family dynamics, especially when professional status changed to teleworking. With this goal, weekly hours spent in housework and caregiving, perceptions of justice about sharing arrangements, and the impact of COVID in the housework and caregiving workload were analyzed, in a sample of 128 working-age participants, living as a couple, and mostly in telework (58%). The asymmetries identified in recent literature were also found in our study, particularly for couples with underage children. Women reported doing much more work than it would be fair, both in household and caregiving tasks. Parents reported a workload increase in caregiving tasks, compared to participants without children, independently of sex.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Gender roles and dynamics in COVID-19 times: Changes and continuities in sharing arrangements of housework and caregiving
title Gender roles and dynamics in COVID-19 times: Changes and continuities in sharing arrangements of housework and caregiving
spellingShingle Gender roles and dynamics in COVID-19 times: Changes and continuities in sharing arrangements of housework and caregiving
Santos,Maria Helena
Housework and caregiving sharing
justice
gender
COVID-19.
title_short Gender roles and dynamics in COVID-19 times: Changes and continuities in sharing arrangements of housework and caregiving
title_full Gender roles and dynamics in COVID-19 times: Changes and continuities in sharing arrangements of housework and caregiving
title_fullStr Gender roles and dynamics in COVID-19 times: Changes and continuities in sharing arrangements of housework and caregiving
title_full_unstemmed Gender roles and dynamics in COVID-19 times: Changes and continuities in sharing arrangements of housework and caregiving
title_sort Gender roles and dynamics in COVID-19 times: Changes and continuities in sharing arrangements of housework and caregiving
author Santos,Maria Helena
author_facet Santos,Maria Helena
Rosa,Miriam
Correia,Rita B.
Xavier,Eduardo
author_role author
author2 Rosa,Miriam
Correia,Rita B.
Xavier,Eduardo
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Santos,Maria Helena
Rosa,Miriam
Correia,Rita B.
Xavier,Eduardo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Housework and caregiving sharing
justice
gender
COVID-19.
topic Housework and caregiving sharing
justice
gender
COVID-19.
description Abstract This paper intends to understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on shared unpaid work between men and women living as a couple during the confinement, to assess whether this situation influenced family dynamics, especially when professional status changed to teleworking. With this goal, weekly hours spent in housework and caregiving, perceptions of justice about sharing arrangements, and the impact of COVID in the housework and caregiving workload were analyzed, in a sample of 128 working-age participants, living as a couple, and mostly in telework (58%). The asymmetries identified in recent literature were also found in our study, particularly for couples with underage children. Women reported doing much more work than it would be fair, both in household and caregiving tasks. Parents reported a workload increase in caregiving tasks, compared to participants without children, independently of sex.
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