Forced to Work from Home: Division of Unpaid Work between Parents and the Relation to Job Satisfaction
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Resumo: | This study investigates the division of household chores and caregiving tasks during the COVID-19 pandemic, considering the influence of participants’ sex, work arrangement, and parental status. Additionally, it aims to understand the relationship of these variables with job satisfaction. Specifically, this study analyses the role of participants’ sex and parental status in the increase and division of unpaid work and investigates the roles of sex, work arrangements (namely telework and on-site work), and the division of unpaid work in job satisfaction. These variables were measured and analyzed with a sample of 268 workers in Portugal (57.8% of whom were teleworking) during pandemic lockdowns. Taken together, the results suggest that despite prepandemic advances in gender equality and despite men and women perceiving an increase in their domestic workload during lockdowns, there were significant inequalities between men and women in the division of unpaid work. These were intensified for couples with young children and were not mitigated by changes in work arrangements such as telework. For women, the lack of sharing in caregiving tasks while teleworking decreased their job satisfaction. For them, the lack of sharing of caregiving tasks moderates the relationship between work arrangements and job satisfaction. The same was not true for men. Despite the optimistic view that telework might promote a more equal sharing of unpaid work, this study shows that unpaid work is still mostly performed by women, with important consequences for the paid work sphere. |
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Forced to Work from Home: Division of Unpaid Work between Parents and the Relation to Job SatisfactionCOVID-19 pandemicdivision of unpaid workgender inequalityparental statuswork arrangementsjob satisfactionThis study investigates the division of household chores and caregiving tasks during the COVID-19 pandemic, considering the influence of participants’ sex, work arrangement, and parental status. Additionally, it aims to understand the relationship of these variables with job satisfaction. Specifically, this study analyses the role of participants’ sex and parental status in the increase and division of unpaid work and investigates the roles of sex, work arrangements (namely telework and on-site work), and the division of unpaid work in job satisfaction. These variables were measured and analyzed with a sample of 268 workers in Portugal (57.8% of whom were teleworking) during pandemic lockdowns. Taken together, the results suggest that despite prepandemic advances in gender equality and despite men and women perceiving an increase in their domestic workload during lockdowns, there were significant inequalities between men and women in the division of unpaid work. These were intensified for couples with young children and were not mitigated by changes in work arrangements such as telework. For women, the lack of sharing in caregiving tasks while teleworking decreased their job satisfaction. For them, the lack of sharing of caregiving tasks moderates the relationship between work arrangements and job satisfaction. The same was not true for men. Despite the optimistic view that telework might promote a more equal sharing of unpaid work, this study shows that unpaid work is still mostly performed by women, with important consequences for the paid work sphere.MDPIRepositório da Universidade de LisboaSantos, Maria HelenaRosa, MiriamB. Correia, RitaRamos, JéssicaCarvalho, Ana Catarina2023-12-15T14:17:16Z20232023-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/61397engSantos, M.H., Rosa, M., Correia, R.B., Ramos, J., Carvalho, A.C. (2023). Forced to Work from Home: Division of Unpaid Work between Parents and the Relation to Job Satisfaction. Social Sciences, 12 (10), art. nº 5392076-076010.3390/socsci12100539info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-12-18T01:22:29Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/61397Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T00:54:58.893153Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Forced to Work from Home: Division of Unpaid Work between Parents and the Relation to Job Satisfaction |
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Forced to Work from Home: Division of Unpaid Work between Parents and the Relation to Job Satisfaction |
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Forced to Work from Home: Division of Unpaid Work between Parents and the Relation to Job Satisfaction Santos, Maria Helena COVID-19 pandemic division of unpaid work gender inequality parental status work arrangements job satisfaction |
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Forced to Work from Home: Division of Unpaid Work between Parents and the Relation to Job Satisfaction |
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Forced to Work from Home: Division of Unpaid Work between Parents and the Relation to Job Satisfaction |
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Forced to Work from Home: Division of Unpaid Work between Parents and the Relation to Job Satisfaction |
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Forced to Work from Home: Division of Unpaid Work between Parents and the Relation to Job Satisfaction |
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Forced to Work from Home: Division of Unpaid Work between Parents and the Relation to Job Satisfaction |
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Santos, Maria Helena |
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Santos, Maria Helena Rosa, Miriam B. Correia, Rita Ramos, Jéssica Carvalho, Ana Catarina |
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Rosa, Miriam B. Correia, Rita Ramos, Jéssica Carvalho, Ana Catarina |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Santos, Maria Helena Rosa, Miriam B. Correia, Rita Ramos, Jéssica Carvalho, Ana Catarina |
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COVID-19 pandemic division of unpaid work gender inequality parental status work arrangements job satisfaction |
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COVID-19 pandemic division of unpaid work gender inequality parental status work arrangements job satisfaction |
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This study investigates the division of household chores and caregiving tasks during the COVID-19 pandemic, considering the influence of participants’ sex, work arrangement, and parental status. Additionally, it aims to understand the relationship of these variables with job satisfaction. Specifically, this study analyses the role of participants’ sex and parental status in the increase and division of unpaid work and investigates the roles of sex, work arrangements (namely telework and on-site work), and the division of unpaid work in job satisfaction. These variables were measured and analyzed with a sample of 268 workers in Portugal (57.8% of whom were teleworking) during pandemic lockdowns. Taken together, the results suggest that despite prepandemic advances in gender equality and despite men and women perceiving an increase in their domestic workload during lockdowns, there were significant inequalities between men and women in the division of unpaid work. These were intensified for couples with young children and were not mitigated by changes in work arrangements such as telework. For women, the lack of sharing in caregiving tasks while teleworking decreased their job satisfaction. For them, the lack of sharing of caregiving tasks moderates the relationship between work arrangements and job satisfaction. The same was not true for men. Despite the optimistic view that telework might promote a more equal sharing of unpaid work, this study shows that unpaid work is still mostly performed by women, with important consequences for the paid work sphere. |
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