Lived experiences of women academics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan

Perceived research productivity of women in higher education: An investigation of the impact of COVID‐19

“…While the former is used as an inclusive term and not necessarily limited to childcare, it is important to underline that 76% of those who have children agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that their unpaid care responsibilities extended since the beginning of the pandemic (and 44.9% of the respondents have children in total), which is 40.3% for those who don't have any. The finding concerning the effect of increased time dedicated to unpaid care work is parallel to what has been extensively underlined in the global literature about the impact of the pandemic on women in academia: while in Pakistan, women's increased burden in paid and unpaid work during lockdowns was found to be expanding gender inequalities in academia (Ali & Ullah, 2021), looking into the Australian context, Nash and Churchill (2020) indicated that women academics had problems balancing care responsibilities and paid work particularly as a result of the largely lacking institutional support. Unlike unpaid care work, extended housework responsibilities were found to have no significant effect on reporting a highly negative influence of the pandemic on productivity despite 75.1% of the respondents reporting to agree or strongly agree that their housework responsibilities have increased during the pandemic, which was 59.4% for care responsibilities.…”

“…while in Pakistan, women's increased burden in paid and unpaid work during lockdowns was found to be expanding gender inequalities in academia (Ali & Ullah, 2021), looking into the Australian context, Nash and Churchill (2020) indicated that women academics had problems balancing care responsibilities and paid work particularly as a result of the largely lacking institutional support. Unlike unpaid care work, extended housework responsibilities were found to have no significant effect on reporting a highly negative influence of the pandemic on productivity despite 75.1%…”

Individual and Organizational Strategies for Promoting Work–Life Balance for Sustainable Workforce: A Systematic Literature Review from Pakistan

“…The themes included (i) home as over loaded workstation; (ii) gendered nature of impact; (iii) abrupt shift for organizations to new normal; (iv) psychological pressures; (v) balancing channels; (vi) coping through personal resources; (vii) emergency preparedness; (viii) capacity building (Figure 2). The results comprised a definition of each theme, data from the descriptive themes, and illustrated by supporting direct quotes extracted from the reviewed articles [75,76,[99][100][101][102][103][104]. Findings are vigorously presented along with relevant quotations from primary studies to enhance the transferability of findings to other settings and groups, as highlighted by Guba [98].…”

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on academic performance and work–life balance of women academicians

“… Staniscuaski (2021) examined the influence of gender, parenthood and race on academic productivity during the pandemic period among Brazilian academicians. Safdar & Yasmin (2020) and Ali and Ullah (2021) explore the disproportionate effects of Covid-19 on women academics in Pakistan. Parlak (2020) studied how women in academics have dealt with domestic and academic responsibilities in Turkey.…”