ERIC Number: EJ1392014
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1359 6748
EISSN: EISSN-1747-5112
Gender Differences in Work-Life Conflict during COVID? A Research Agenda for Work-Life Conflict Post-Pandemic
Research in Post-Compulsory Education, v28 n2 p207-225 2023
Studies on gender differences in work-life conflict have shown that women often report higher levels of work-life conflict due to social mores of undertaking a larger proportion of childcare and household work. Similarly, emergent research on the impact of the Covid pandemic on work-life conflict have shown that women experienced more work-life conflict. During the pandemic, educational work and provision took place within the home. The current study therefore sought to investigate work-life conflict for employees in the further education sector during the pandemic. The findings of the current study suggest that there were no gender differences, at least in the case of the further education sector, which is contrary to extant research on work-life conflict. Thus, there is scope to explore through future research whether there is trajectory towards gender equalitarianism in the sharing of household work, whether the pandemic as a crisis was an episodic event that necessitated gender equalitarian work distribution, or whether the blurring of boundaries between work and non-work domains is a continuum of neoliberal institutional demands.
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Family Work Relationship, Conflict, COVID-19, Pandemics, Adult Education, Sex Fairness, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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