Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Remote workers’ free associations with working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria: The interaction between children and gender
Originally published 2022-08-04 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.859020 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about listening separately to employees in different household situations; the original evidence concerns 283 Austrian remote workers cohabiting with intimate partners.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
Do mothers and fathers describe the same homeworking day differently?
This reading brings parents' and nonparents' gendered representations of homeworking into the respect pathway. The mixed-method free-association study offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
283 Austrian remote workers cohabiting with intimate partners
Age / stage: Working adults with and without children
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess the free-association method and representations of homeworking?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about interactions between gender, children and perceived boundaries?
- What would need to be checked before adopting listening separately to employees in different household situations?
Keep the limits in view
Subjective representations from a small cohabiting lockdown sample cannot establish universal gender differences or objective policy effects.
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Martina Hartner-Tiefenthaler; Eva Zedlacher; Tarek Josef el Sehity (2022). Remote workers’ free associations with working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria: The interaction between children and gender Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.859020
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