scholarly journals THE IMPACTS OF WORKING AT HOME ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF BRAZILIAN WOMEN DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. e25295
Author(s):  
Aline Cavalcante Santana
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Gender Gaps ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
The World ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
At Home

Brazil is one of the biggest epicentres of COVID-19 outbreak in the world, with many deaths and impacts in the economy, such as record unemployment rates and massive business closure in many industries. Due to this pandemic, about 7.3 million Brazilians worked from home (WFH) in November 2020 (IBGE, 2020), including women, that traditionally carry the most housework and care responsibilities in a home. To investigate the impacts of WFH on productivity of Brazilian women during the COVID-19 pandemic it was distributed a survey on Google Forms. The survey was attended by 31 respondents (100% cisgender women; Mage = 24-48 years), from several areas of expertise. To deepen the discussion it was made a systematic revision using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses - PRISMA (Galvão, Pansani, & Harrad, 2015) and 11 studies were analysed (6 reviews and 5 surveys). It was found that the pandemic has made gender gaps more apparent and that women are disproportionate impacted by its due to the traditional gender roles.

scholarly journals Working from Home and COVID-19: The Chances and Risks for Gender Gaps

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 381-386
Author(s):  
Melanie Arntz ◽  
Sarra Ben Yahmed ◽  
Francesco Berlingieri
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Heterogeneous Structure ◽  
Gender Gaps ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Household Allocation

AbstractAs the COVID-19 pandemic causes a record number of people to work from home, this disruptive event will likely have a long-lasting impact on work arrangements. Given existing research on the effects of working from home on hours worked and wages, an increased availability of working from home may provide a chance for women to catch up with their male counterparts. Yet, the need to simultaneously care for children during the COVID-19 lockdown may also revive traditional gender roles, potentially counteracting such gains. We discuss the likely effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender gaps in the labour market and at home in light of recent empirical findings and novel statistics on the heterogeneous structure of work arrangements among couples. We construct a novel teleworkability index that differentiates between fully teleworkable, partly teleworkable and on-site jobs and find that in about a third of households the COVID-19 shock is likely to induce shifts in the intra-household allocation of tasks from mothers to fathers.

scholarly journals Empowerment Of Women Through Information And Communication Technology [ICT]

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-157
Author(s):  
S. M. Khalid Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Infrastructure ◽  
At Home

Our world has seen enormous improvements in mobile telephony, the internet, and ebusiness. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) play a critical and core role in today’s society. All over the world nations have recognized information and communication Technology (ICT) as a powerful tool in accelerating the economic activity, efficient governance and developing human resources. Whether it’s the electronic form of conducting business or social/professional networking over the World Wide Web, ICT has proved that it is a basic requirement for social and economic development. To increase the flow of Information and improving communications and to increase possibilities and opportunities, ICT infrastructure is a rudimentary need. ICT has proved that it is one of the major difference between developed and developing countries. Take for example India. India has achieved the status of the world’s 4th biggest economy, major fraction of which is basically IT driven. The information and communication technology could be used to empower the Women in Pakistan by making the resources available to them at home, where a nearby area / residential based environment could be created for working at home where they could fulfill their home based liabilities as well.

scholarly journals Cultural Determinants of Gender Roles: “Pragmatism” as an Underpinning Attitude toward Gender Equality among Children of Immigrants

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Ljunge
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Cultural Determinants ◽  
The World

This chapter presents evidence of how attitudes toward gender roles in the home and market are shaped by Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European countries with ancestry from across the world are studied. Individuals are examined within country of residence using variation in cultural dimensions across countries of ancestry. The approach focuses attention on how gender roles are shaped across generations within families. Both influences on the father’s and mother’s side are studied. Ancestry from more masculine cultures shape more traditional gender roles on both parents’ sides. On the father side more pragmatic cultures foster gender equality on the mother’s side power distance promote equality attitudes, although this influence differs markedly between daughters and sons. Pragmatism is in several circumstances the strongest influence on gender norms.

scholarly journals The Development of Telemedicine and eHealth in Surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 11969
Author(s):  
Anas Taha ◽  
Bara Saad ◽  
Bassey Enodien ◽  
Marta Bachmann ◽  
Daniel M. Frey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
The United States ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
The World ◽  
Poor Outcomes ◽  
Meta Analyses

SARS-CoV-2 has hampered healthcare systems worldwide, but some countries have found new opportunities and methods to combat it. In this study, we focused on the rapid growth of telemedicine during the pandemic around the world. We conducted a systematic literature review of all the articles published up to the present year, 2021, by following the requirements of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework. The data extracted comprised eHealth and telemedicine in surgery globally, and independently in Europe, the United States, and Switzerland. This review explicitly included fifty-nine studies. Out of all the articles included, none of them found that telemedicine causes poor outcomes in patients. Telemedicine has created a new path in the world of healthcare, revolutionizing how healthcare is delivered to patients and developing alternative methods for clinicians.

Parental leave across the world: How does it compare?

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 458-459
Author(s):  
Delilah Kealy Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
The World

While many countries still have traditional gender roles, with mothers entitled to more time on leave than fathers, some are challenging this norm. Are parenting roles across the world evolving?

Your feet and my hands – fulcrums of support and reorganization: Bio-somatic dance movement naturotherapy

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 139-163
Author(s):  
Amanda Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Connective Tissue ◽  
Conscious Awareness ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
The World ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Considerable Strain ◽  
At Home

This article is offered as part of the COVID-19 special issue. I imagine it is useful for practitioners and students who are working at home, unable to attend the studio. The article explores the joints in the feet through a model of differentiation (traditional anatomy) and de-differentiation (biotensegrity). The feet are often forgotten. While they carry us through the world, from our first step to our last, they often fall beneath conscious awareness. Our feet run frantically underneath us, trying to catch up with our over sympathetically charged bodies. Under current socio-economic pressures, and work–rest imbalance, they suffer considerable strain. They often become a repository of life’s stresses and strain. The health of the feet affects the whole organism and any change in the feet locally will affect the global. In this article, I share a practice that helps to realign the feet through a model of biotensegrity, co-creative touch and self-regulatory movement. In this model, the bones are viewed as floating in a sea of connective tissue. Each joint is perceived as a mini fulcrum of reorganization. The article explores the feet as fulcrums of reorganization and the receptive hands of the therapist as fulcrums of sensory support. The article also shares some subtle embodied qualities that underlie healthy practice, such as finding safety in your nervous system before facilitating. The article is divided into four parts – Part 1: Hygeia meets Asclepius; Part 2: The feet suffer; Part 3: Preparing for practice; and Part 4: My hands, your feet: Fulcrums of support and reorganization.

scholarly journals Freeter, Arafo, House Husband: Shifting Values of Hegemonic Masculinity and Emphasized Femininity in Four Japanese Television Dramas

IZUMI ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-57
Author(s):  
Rouli Esther Pasaribu
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Corpus Data ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
Japanese Television ◽  
At Home

This study examines the shifting values of masculinity and femininity in four Japanese television dramas: At Home Dad (2004), Around 40 (2008), Freeter, Buy a House (2010), and Wonderful Single Life (2012). These corpus data are analyzed using Connell’s concepts of hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity. The findings of this study focus on the following: 1. Characters in the four television dramas challenge the dominant discourses of masculinity and femininity by living as freeters, house husbands, and arafos. 2. To criticize hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity, these dramas depict the negative aspects of living a rigid lifestyle encompassed by traditional gender roles and feature main characters who show alternative lifestyles of masculinity and femininity. 3. Hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininity values shadow the emergence of alternative masculinity and femininity in contemporary Japanese society.  

scholarly journals Transitions Into and Out of Work: Stay-at-Home Fathers’ Thoughts and Feelings: A Brief Report

2021 ◽  
pp. 106082652110320
Author(s):  
Catherine Jones ◽  
Jasmine Wells ◽  
Susan Imrie ◽  
Susan Golombok
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
At Home ◽  
Highly Involved

This qualitative study explored how stay-at-home fathers (SAHFs) think and feel about transitioning back into paid employment. Findings from a thematic analysis on interviews with 21 SAHFs in the United Kingdom revealed that many of the SAHFs expected to return to work. However, most of the fathers suggested that this would be part-time, or self-employment, which would allow them to remain highly involved in caregiving, representing their commitment to moving away from the traditional gender roles that are largely evident in parenting. Some fathers expressed a desire to return to the paid workforce whilst others showed apprehension, indicating tensions over negotiating work and care. These findings have practical implications for fathers who are highly involved in caregiving.

scholarly journals CHILDHOOD MOOD DISORDERS DURING PANDEMIC; LEARNING MANAGEMENT BASED ON SELF DISCIPLINE

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-344
Author(s):  
Akmal Mundiri ◽  
Chodijatus Sholehah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Mood Disorders ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Staying At Home ◽  
At Home

This paper describes the management of early childhood mood in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic through qualitative research approaches and types of case studies. Covid’s-19 pandemic that hit the world has changed most of human activities. This pandemic anables everyone to do their own work by staying at home, studying at home and working at home. It was requested that the government had appealed. This research aims to learn how to regulate early childhood moods so that they can be disciplined in the midst of this pandemic. There are several methods that can be used, use the exemplary method, habitation, and discuss individuals. Besides that, there are other things that can also be done, such a giving awards to children who have met the specified discipline standards, for example, providing additional play time. And give punishment the sentence consist of no award received, not with punches, screams or twists.

Angels and Ingenues in Tennyson’s The Princess and Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Fasick
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
The World

Abstract This essay argues that Tennyson’s “The Princess,” frequently attacked as an anti-feminist poem, is more nuanced and potentially feminist than many critics have acknowledged. The poem’s exploration of gender roles emerges as especially challenging and thoughtful in comparison to the extreme gender conservatism of Gilbert and Sullivan’s musical parody, “Princess Ida.” Where Gilbert and Sullivan shrink all aspects of female character to sexual desire, Tennyson treats the female aspirations in his poem with considerable seriousness and respect. Ultimately, the reversion of the characters in “The Princess” to traditional gender roles seems based not upon fear of a new kind of femininity but upon fear of a new kind of masculinity. Tennyson’s poem implies that women can develop intellectually without threatening men’s stature, but men cannot develop emotionally and spiritually without losing worldly power. In that implication lies a tacit admission of the emptiness of Victorian society’s claims that women could wield power through moral authority. Moral authority, Tennyson implicitly confesses, has no real force in the world.

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