Childcare and Remote Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ideal Worker Model, Parenthood and Gender Inequalities in Italy

Cannito, Maddalena; Scavarda, Alice

doi:10.13136/isr.v10i3s.399

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“…The digital labor can become overwhelming in certain special periods. Lockdowns imposed to contain the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 led to the adoption of homeschooling and online education in many places (Cannito & Scavarda, 2020;Lian & Yoon, 2020). These periods of online education at home intensified parents' involvement and digital labor in their children's study (Cannito & Scavarda, 2020;Lian & Yoon, 2020).…”

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“…Lockdowns imposed to contain the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 led to the adoption of homeschooling and online education in many places (Cannito & Scavarda, 2020;Lian & Yoon, 2020). These periods of online education at home intensified parents' involvement and digital labor in their children's study (Cannito & Scavarda, 2020;Lian & Yoon, 2020). For example, Shen, a 38-year-old mother in Shenzhen, supervised her 10-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son's online classes at home for over a month before they resumed regular schooling in May 2020.…”

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Gendered Division of Digital Labor in Parenting: A Qualitative Study in Urban China

Peng

2022

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The gendered division of domestic labor is a key topic in gender and family studies. While there has been extensive discussion of time use and the division of physical, emotional, and mental labor in housework and childcare within couples, the division of digital labor in the family has not been systematically examined. Drawing on qualitative data obtained from 147 parents in 84 urban Chinese families, this study reveals prominent gender differences in digital labor in parenting by comparing urban Chinese mothers' and fathers' use of digital technology and media in searching for parenting information, maintaining online communication with teachers, and shopping online and using online education services for their children. The findings demonstrate an unequal division of digital labor in urban Chinese families, in which mothers shoulder most of the digital labor in parenting. This study enriches the feminist literature by demonstrating the mutual construction of gender and digital technology in the domestic sphere and highlighting a new form of domestic labor divided between husbands and wives in the digital age. This study challenges liberating and progressive myths surrounding digital technology and calls for academic reflection and public attention on its constraining and exploitative implications for women. KeywordsDigital labor • Child care • Gender differences • Division of labor • Digital technology • Internet usage • China * Yinni Peng

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Gendered Division of Digital Labor in Parenting: A Qualitative Study in Urban China

Peng

2022

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“…There was no difference between men who remained at their worksite or worked from home (Blasko, 2020 ). Thus, the previous studies from various countries indicate that COVID-19 has disrupted women's possibilities to set boundaries around work and private life to a greater extent than among men (Cannito and Scavarda, 2020 ; Collins et al, 2021 ; Graham et al, 2021 ). The fact that women have more difficulty achieving boundary management (Van der Lippe and Lippényi, 2020 ) makes us assume that the boundaries between the two domains are more often blurred among women, which causes additive strain.…”

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“…Studies from other countries than Sweden indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted women's working life to a more considerable degree than men's working life (Cannito and Scavarda, 2020 ; Collins et al, 2021 ; Graham et al, 2021 ). Closed pre-school activities and distance teaching strategies in many countries inflicted foremost on mothers' possibilities to even remain working.…”

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“…An Australian study showed that men who worked from home (as compared to women working from home) more often had a separate workspace and were less often disturbed during work hours (Graham et al, 2021 ). Italian women working from home experienced fewer boundaries between work and private life than their husbands (Cannito and Scavarda, 2020 ). Meanwhile, in a study by Yerkes et al ( 2022 ), it is indicated that women in more gender-equal countries, with high female labor market participation, compared to women in less gender-equal countries, to a greater extent, struggled with combining work and private life during the pandemic.…”

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Work–Life Enrichment and Interference Among Swedish Workers: Trends From 2016 Until the COVID-19 Pandemic

2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic has altered workers' possibilities to combine work and private life. Work and private life could either interfere with each other, that is, when conflicting demands arise, or enrich, that is, when the two roles are beneficial to one another. Analyzing data from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health through individual growth models, we investigated time trends of interference and enrichment between work and private life from 2016 through March to September 2020, which is during the first wave of the pandemic. The sample included workers who had remained in the same workplace throughout the study period and worked at least 30% of full time, reaching 5,465 individuals. In addition, we examined trends in level of interference and enrichment across gender and industries. Results showed that Life-to-work interference increased over time in the Swedish working population, but neither did work-to-life interference nor enrichment. We observed only marginal differences across gender. Also, in the industries of fine manufacturing and real-estate activities, a decrease in interference, work-to-life interference, and life-to-work interference, respectively, was observed. In the human health and social care industry, an increase in interference and life-to-work interference was seen. Our conclusion is that overall changes to the possibilities to balance work and private life have occurred for workers in Sweden during the first period of the pandemic. Further studies are needed to study development time trends throughout the pandemic and across different occupations.

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Burnout in Brazilian Women Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Motherhood

Arenas,

Viduani,

Bastos

et al. 2023

J Child Fam Stud

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Childcare and Remote Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ideal Worker Model, Parenthood and Gender Inequalities in Italy

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Gendered Division of Digital Labor in Parenting: A Qualitative Study in Urban China

Gendered Division of Digital Labor in Parenting: A Qualitative Study in Urban China

Work–Life Enrichment and Interference Among Swedish Workers: Trends From 2016 Until the COVID-19 Pandemic

Burnout in Brazilian Women Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Motherhood

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