Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Juggling during Lockdown: Balancing Telework and Family Life in Pandemic Times and Its Perceived Consequences for the Health and Wellbeing of Working Women
Originally published 2023-03-08 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/ijerph20064781 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about work expectations that recognize simultaneous care demands; the original evidence concerns 18 working mothers in Spain during lockdown.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
What happens when one person is expected to work and hold the household together?
This reading brings mothers' accounts of telework, domestic co-responsibility and lost support networks into the respect pathway. The qualitative semi-structured interview study offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
18 working mothers in Spain during lockdown
Age / stage: Mothers of children under 10
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess themes around telework, co-responsibility and support breakdown?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about the difference between lived accounts and general prevalence?
- What would need to be checked before adopting work expectations that recognize simultaneous care demands?
Keep the limits in view
A small qualitative lockdown sample cannot represent all mothers or establish causal health effects; emergency conditions were exceptional.
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Mariana Loezar-Hernández; Erica Briones-Vozmediano; Elena Ronda-Pérez; Laura Otero-García (2023). Juggling during Lockdown: Balancing Telework and Family Life in Pandemic Times and Its Perceived Consequences for the Health and Wellbeing of Working Women International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064781
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