Gender and the pandemic: Associations between caregiving, working from home, personal and career outcomes for women and men.

ABSTRACT: The coronavirus pandemic lockdowns have led to an increase of caregiving and household responsibilities for many employees while working from home. We aimed to investigate whether there was a gender imbalance in the division of household labour within families during the pandemic, and whether this imbalance was associated with gender differences in personal outcomes (work-family conflict, burnout) as well as career-related outcomes (career self-efficacy and aspirations). Participants were 240 heterosexual individuals with or without caregiving responsibilities who lived with a partner and worked from home during the pandemic. They completed self-report questionnaires and indicated the division of domestic tasks within their household, the extent to which they experienced burnout and work-f

SUBMITTER: Stefanova V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8717695 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature