COVID-19 and gender inequity in science: Consistent harm over time.

ABSTRACT: Stay-at-home-orders, online learning, and work from home policies are some of the responses governments, universities, and other institutions adopted to slow the spread of COVID-19. However, research shows these measures have increased pre-existing gender disparities in the workplace. The working conditions for women during the pandemic worsened due to increased family care responsibilities and unequal distribution of domestic labor. In the academy, working from home has resulted in reduced research time and increased teaching and family care responsibilities, with a larger proportion of that burden falling to women. We investigate the persistence of gender inequity among academic scientists resulting from university COVID-19 responses over time. We draw on two surveys administered in May

SUBMITTER: Caldarulo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9269954 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature