Working, Caring, Surviving

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-31
Author(s):  
Lygia Sabbag Fares ◽  
Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira ◽  
Lílian Nogueira Rolim
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Work ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Social Distancing

Drawing from a questionnaire answered by 455 people during social distancing in Brazil, the chapter analyzes how individuals who worked remotely and those who did not cope with the increase in domestic and care work and how this extra work was divided in gender terms. The questionnaire indicates that the pandemic increased both domestic and care activities, with the former being more frequent for women and those under remote work. In general, this was not accompanied by a better division of these activities across sexes as women remained mainly responsible for them. Nevertheless, some improvements in the division of the domestic work were observed amongst those under remote work. However, when such a rebalance does not occur, remote work tends to be associated with an increase in women's overburdening.

scholarly journals Transformation of the Private/Public Divide in the Times of Covid-19: How Economydriven Policies Are Reshaping the Concept of Social/Physical Distancing in Serbia

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-135
Author(s):  
Ivana Stepanović
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Physical Distance ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Times ◽  
Over Time

The evolution of social/physical distancing narratives throughout the COVID19 pandemic has left the concept itself ambiguous and vague while cutting through the borderlines between private and public. In the case of Serbia, economy-driven policies have shifted the focus from isolation, solitude and remote work during the first and the only lockdown towards the idea of physical distance in public spaces and work environments. This paper aims to analyse how social distancing narratives in Serbia were construed over time through governmental policies as well as companies’ regulations, and how they redefined the concept of privacy during the pandemic.

scholarly journals The impact of social stratification on morbidity during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (9/10) ◽  
pp. 793-806
Author(s):  
Nilanjan Raghunath ◽  
Tony Tan
Keyword(s):  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Median Income ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Us Census ◽  
The Impact

PurposeSocioeconomic status (SES) has been known to be associated with many aspects of social life such as health. We argue that social stratification remains relevant in understanding differentials in health during a pandemic, as countries globally have encouraged or enforced social distancing and remote work measures.Design/methodology/approachBy examining data sources and news reports on the COVID-19 pandemic, we aim to highlight the relationship between SES and morbidity, through the ability to adopt social distancing measures and work remotely. Utilizing publicly available data from the Maryland Transport Institute and the US Census, we performed linear regressions on median income, social distancing index and percentage of individuals working from home.FindingsIndividuals with higher SES are more likely to have jobs that provide opportunities for remote work to be performed, which allows for social distancing. Comparatively, individuals with lower SES are more likely to be involved in jobs that cannot be performed remotely. The linear regression models suggest a positive moderate and significant correlation between median income and social distancing index (R2 = 0.4981, p-value < 0.001), and a positive weak and significant correlation between median income and remote work (R2 = 0.2460, p-value < 0.001).Research limitations/implicationsGovernments need to account for SES in policymaking to reduce inequalities in health.Originality/valueThe paper aims to improve the understanding of social stratification and morbidity through examining data on the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Navigating the Unprecedented: Leading Remotely Unexpectedly

EDIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Sowcik ◽  
Megan Stein
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Agricultural Education ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Four Frames ◽  
The World

Leaders tend to have a set of assumptions or ideas about how to do their job. As the world moves quickly to social distancing and remote work, leaders rely on their assumptions to navigate this new landscape. Different frames of reference can act as a road map allowing leaders to take the first steps into the unknown. This new 4-page article utilizes these Bolman and Deal's four frames addressing different aspects of leadership to provide best practices for leading in a remote work environment. Written by Matthew Sowcik and Megan Stein, and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural Education and Communication.https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/wc354

Unequal Sharing of Domestic Work: A Time Use Study of Farm Households in Western Uttar Pradesh

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kavita Baliyan
Keyword(s):  
Time Use ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Domestic Work ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Farm Households ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Total Workload

The article examines the issue of unpaid work and sharing of work between male and female family members in cultivating households on the basis of a field survey of 240 farm households in two districts in the agriculturally developed western region of Uttar Pradesh. The study reveals that women’s total workload was much higher than that of men. The pattern of work and time use have hardly changed. The burden of domestic work and care basically falls on women of the household. The participation of men in these activities is nominal. Women’s contribution to farm activities is significant, and further, they do most of the work in animal husbandry. Consequently, they have much less time for leisure and sleep. Our study highlights the permanence of traditional intra-household gender disparities in the distribution of work within the household. These values are transferred to the next generation as young girls are expected to help their mothers in carrying out domestic duties and care work, while boys have no such obligation.

scholarly journals Employment in the post-pandemic period: problems and prospects (regional aspect)

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 01026
Author(s):  
Lyubov Krylova ◽  
Anna Prudnikova ◽  
Natalya Sergeeva
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Regional Aspect ◽  
The World ◽  
Employment Situation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Conditions Of Employment

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the employment situation, both globally and within individual states. Several tens of millions of people in the world were left without work. The unemployment rate, both statistically confirmed and hidden, has risen significantly. Only the most developed and richest countries were able to restrain the rapid growth in the number of unemployed through budget transfers. At the same time, the era of social distancing contributed to the revision of work standards in many industries, changed the conditions of employment and the requirements of employers to employees. The forced transition of thousands of institutions to remote work was a catalyst for the digital economy and led to the emergence and rapid growth of new clusters of professions of the future. The world after the pandemic will no longer be the same, and in the field of employment in the first place.

scholarly journals Portrait of the Impact of the Implementation of Large-Scale Social Distancing during Covid-19 Pandemic towards Women and Marginalized Groups through the Perspective of Intersectional Feminism..

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
Atnike Nova Sigiro ◽  
Abby Gina ◽  
Dewi Komalasari ◽  
Andi Misbahul Pratiwi
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The Impact

<p>Pembatasan jarak sosial (<em>social distancing</em>) adalah salah satu bentuk kebijakan untuk mencegah penyebaran virus Corona di tengah pandemi Covid-19, yang dijalankan oleh berbagai negara. Di Indonesia, kebijakan pembatasan jarak sosial ini diberi nama Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar (PSBB). Dengan penerapan PSBB maka sejumlah besar kegiatan di ruang publik harus ditutup dan/atau dibatasi. Sementara itu, sebagian besar aktivitas masyarakat, seperti bersekolah dan bekerja, harus dilakukan jarak jauh atau dilakukan di rumah. Penerapan pembatasan jarak sosial tersebut menyebabkan bertambhanya kegiatan rumah tangga, dan hal ini memperbesar tanggung jawab perempuan dalam kerja-kerja perawatan (<em>care work</em>) dan kerja rumah tangga (<em>house work</em>) di ranah domestik. Melalui kacamata feminisme interseksional, artikel ini mencoba memaparkan dampak penerapan pembatasan jarak sosial di Indonesia di ranah domestik terhadap perempuan dan kelompok marginal. Artikel ini menemukan bahwa berbagai ketimpangan seperti ketimpangan gender, ketimpangan kelas, dan ketimpangan sosial yang selama ini dialami oleh perempuan dan kelompok marginal di dalam tulisan ini telah memperburuk situasi mereka di saat penerapan pembatasan jarak sosial dilakukan.</p>

scholarly journals Haushaltsarbeit und affektive Arbeit

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (174) ◽  
Author(s):  
Encarnacion Gutiérrez Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Work ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Undocumented Migrant ◽  
Affective Dimension ◽  
Central Topic ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Socioeconomic Studies

The central topic of this article is the social devaluation of domestic work, especially focusing on its affective dimension. The question of reproduction as well as the productive character of care-work is constantly neglected in many socioeconomic studies. This counts also for Marxist analyses. Following enquiries in European countries on how domestic work is sensed, how this impacts the people delivering this work, as well as how these feelings linger in spaces and are transferred within relations, the results are interpreted in the context of processes of feminization and the coloniality of labor. Special attention is given to the situation of undocumented migrant domestic workers. As conclusion to these observations some thoughts on formulating domestic workers’ rights along the lines of the politics of affect are elaborated.

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