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The gendered impact of Covid-19 pandemic on work-life balance and work-family balance

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ID12596642
AutoresHind Elhinnawy (0000-0002-3960-3138, Nottingham Trent University, autor correspondente), Morag Kennedy (0000-0001-6771-9608, Nottingham Trent University), Sílvia Gomes (0000-0001-5503-0037, University of Warwick)
Ano2023
Volume28
Fascículo2
Páginas291-310
Data de publicação2023-10-11
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCommunity Work & Family (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1366-8803 • E-ISSN: 1469-3615
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13668803.2023.2265044
OpenAlexW4387541289
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas63

This paper explores the impact flexible and hybrid work has had on women who turned to work-from-home during three COVID-19 lockdowns in the UK. Based on 10 in-depth interviews with women living and working in East Midlands, UK, this study found that despite heightened care needs and the additional burdens women faced during the pandemic, one silver lining was that flexible and hybrid work has positively impacted some women. All women spoke about how the pandemic and associated restrictions have altered their conceptualisation of space in both positive and negative ways. Life during the pandemic gave participants extra care needs and added burdens, but it also gave them more space to be with family and to manage their lives more effectively. This sense of increased space for social and family bonding and life and time management was reduced after the pandemic due to the difficulties women had to bear (again) in balancing the demands of work and family obligations. As such, this paper attempts to demonstrate the need to think of innovative ways to support women’s flexible work both during the pandemic and in the long term

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