Parenting during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020: academia, labour and care work
Parenting during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020: academia, labour and care work
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DOI:
10.1080/09612025.2020.1807690
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发表时间:
2020-09-11
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0.7
通讯作者:
Crook, Sarah
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作者:
Crook, Sarah
The Covid-19 pandemic instigated fundamental challenges and changes to parents' working lives in Britain. This viewpoint article reflects upon the experience of balancing childrearing responsibilities with academic work across the Spring and Summer of 2020. It positions the removal of formal and informal childcare networks within the history of feminist demands around childcare and sets it against the background of the recent history of women and reproduction within Higher Education in Britain. Drawing upon feminist literature, personal experience, academic parents' testimony and emerging studies of the gendered effects of the crisis, the article explores some of the critical challenges that balancing childcare and academic work presented and offers some preliminary reflections on the experience of the concurrent 'double shift' the lockdown engendered.