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Work from home and parenting: Examining the role of work‐family conflict and gender during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Janine Bernhardt; Claudia Recksiedler; Anja Linberg

Originally published 2022-06-26 · The Journal of Social Issues
Wiley · DOI 10.1111/josi.12509 ↗

RespectGerman parent-panel analysis before and during the pandemicCC BY 4.0
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Working-family evidence

Work, care and the whole person.

Relevant to decisions about support for parents who cannot work from home; the original evidence concerns working parents in a 2019 family survey and 2020 COVID-19 follow-up.

Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.

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Could access to homeworking change the pressures that reach parenting?

This reading brings homeworking, work-family conflict and gendered changes in responsive and harsh parenting into the respect pathway. The german parent-panel analysis before and during the pandemic offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.

Study context

Working parents in a 2019 family survey and 2020 COVID-19 follow-up

Age / stage: Working parents; child ages vary in the original survey

Read with three questions

  1. How did the researchers define and assess responsive parenting, harsh parenting and work-family conflict?
  2. What does the study design allow us to conclude about first-difference estimates and the treatment of sample selection?
  3. What would need to be checked before adopting support for parents who cannot work from home?

Keep the limits in view

Pandemic-specific observational estimates depend on modeling assumptions and do not prove that homeworking improves every parent's behavior.

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Janine Bernhardt; Claudia Recksiedler; Anja Linberg (2022). Work from home and parenting: Examining the role of work‐family conflict and gender during the COVID‐19 pandemic The Journal of Social Issues. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12509

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