关于COVID封锁和夫妇分工的无薪劳动的质量生活过程视角
1Centre for Population, Family and Health, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Advances in life course research
|December 6, 2023
概括
虽然Covid-19封锁增加了无薪劳动力,但父母却没有.
科学领域:
- 家庭社会学 家庭社会学
- 性别研究是关于性别的研究.
- 工作与生活平衡研究工作与生活平衡研究
背景情况:
- 随着COVID-19的封锁,无薪劳动力发生了重大变化,例如家庭教育,以及包括远程工作在内的改变工作条件.
- 广泛的研究已经检查了疫情期间双收入夫妇之间无薪劳动的性别分工的变化.
- 在了解双收入父母如何看待他们在锁定条件下关于劳动分工的决策过程方面存在差距.
研究的目的:
- 探索双收入父母对他们在COVID-19封锁期间对家庭劳动分工的决策的看法.
- 为了确定关于家庭劳动分工在锁定期间之前和期间的叙述的变化.
- 分析个人代理,社会因素和路径依赖在塑造劳动分工中的相互作用.
主要方法:
- 采用了传记解释方法.
- 对比利时的双收入父母进行了31次个人深入采访.
- 评估了家庭劳动分工前和锁定期间叙述的变化.
主要成果:
- 确定了五种理想类型的叙述,反映了不同程度的路径依赖与劳动分工中的新性别动态.
- 强调了特定行业的工作时间和远程工作的变化被认为是新的性别动态的外部决定因素.
- 发现家庭关于无薪劳动的决策主要被认为是依赖于Covid前安排的路径,受到结构和规范边界的影响.
结论:
- 在封锁期间,家庭对无薪劳动的决策在很大程度上遵循了先前存在的模式,受性别假期计划和规范育儿规范等结构因素的影响.
- 新的性别动态往往归因于外部因素,如远程工作和工作时间的改变,但路径依赖仍然是一个主要的主题.
- 定性生活过程视角对于理解路径依赖的决策过程至关重要,这些过程可能会在定量分析中被忽视,这可能是锁定期间劳动分工的基础.
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