(Arntz, Berlingieri, Yahmed, & Sarra, 2020): As that Covid-19 epidemic is causing an all-time high number of individuals to work from home, this disruptive event is expected to have a long-term impact on work arrangements. Given previous studies on the impacts of working from home (WFH) on hours worked and pay, increasing availability of WFH may give an opportunity for women to catch up with their male counterparts. However, the requirement to simultaneously care for children during the Covid-19 lockdown may resurrect old gender roles, potentially counteracting such improvements. In light of recent empirical results and unique statistics on the varied nature of employment arrangements among spouses, we address the anticipated impacts of the Covid-19 epidemic on gender inequalities in the labor market and at home. We develop a unique telework ability measure that distinguishes between completely telework able, somewhat telework able, and on-site occupations and discover that the Covid-19 shock is expected to cause shifts in intra-household task allocation from mothers to dads in around 30% of families.
(Aczel, Kovacs, Lippe, & Szaszi, 2021): For most professionals, the flexibility provided by technological mobilization has disintegrated the traditional work-life boundary. Working from home is either beneficial or detrimental to academic efficiency and work-life balance, which has become a daunting question for both scientists and their employers. On a personal level, the recent pandemic highlighted the benefits and challenges of working from home. We surveyed 704 academics working from home using a convenient sampling method and discovered that the pandemic lockdown reduced work efficiency for nearly half of the researchers, but a quarter of them were more efficient than before. Based on their personal experiences, 70% of the researchers believe that if they could spend more of their work time at home, they would be similarly or more efficient than before. They stated that they are better at sharing ideas with colleagues, staying in touch with their team, and collecting data at work, whereas they are better at working on their manuscript, reading the literature, and analyzing data at home. Taking their well-being into account, 66 percent of them would prefer to work from home more in the future than they did before the lockdown.
(McKinsey LeanIn, 2020): According to a McKinsey/LeanIn.Org study on women in the workplace published in September, the COVID-19 crisis has had a greater negative impact on women than men. According to the study, women are more likely than men to have been laid off or furloughed, and as the lines between work and home have blurred, more than one in every four women has considered downshifting their careers or leaving the workplace entirely.
(Codd, 2020): The poll reveals the pandemic’s effects on the work/life balance and well-being of numerous working women, underlining how the epidemic may jeopardize some of the recent advances on gender equality in the workplace.
Importantly, our survey findings have allowed us to highlight not just how certain women were affected by the pandemic, but also the activities that employers must take to encourage women’s continuing success and advancement within their enterprises. There are six essential areas of focus for companies to take action and guarantee that women continue to grow in the workplace, ranging from making flexible working the norm to addressing microaggressions in the workplace.
(Adisa, Aiyenitaju, & Adekoya, 2020): The COVID-19 epidemic has had a gender-specific impact on women, notably their traditional role as household administrators. The purpose of this study is to use role theory to investigate the influence of the COVID-19 epidemic on women’s work–family balance during the lockdown. The present COVID-19 epidemic, which has changed the way we live and work, necessitates the use of special methodological tools to comprehend. As a result, the writers used an interpretive–constructivist and constructivist–phenomenologist strategy. Thus, the dataset consists of semi-structured interviews with 26 working women in the United Kingdom. This study suggests, using the perspective of role theory, that the cohabitation of work and family tasks inside the home space hinders the ability to attain work–family balance and role satisfaction. Differentiation as a result of inter-role conflicts This research adds to our knowledge of the effect. During the unusual COVID-19 epidemic, the impact of remote working on female employees’ work–family balance was studied in a lockdown
(Sundaresan, 2014) Work life balance refers to the harmony that exists between an individual’s personal and professional lives. A healthy work-life balance is especially important for working women in this day and age, when both the home and the job provide several obstacles and issues for women. The response rate was around 93 percent, and the collected data was statistically analyzed. According to the findings, a large number of working women are having trouble managing work and family life owing to high job pressure, little time for themselves, and the desire to meet others’ expectations of them. Because they have to work longer hours, the majority of working women face job spillover into the home. High levels of stress and worry, discord at home, job burnout, and inability to fulfil full potential are all major repercussions of poor work-life balance
(Jauhari, 2017) India has a wide range of traditions and customs. Women’s roles have traditionally been confined to household tasks and domestic problems. Women’s education and labor involvement were insignificant. Indian women differ from their Western counterparts in that, despite their professional obligations, they maintain their traditional roles as mothers and housewives. Work-life balance is rapidly becoming a topic of discussion, particularly among female professionals. Work-life balance is an equilibrium situation in which the demands of both work and personal life are equal.
(Sudha & Karthikeyan, 2014) The most essential aspects of life are one’s career and one’s ambitions. The majority of women are seeking employment in order to support their families. Because of changes in the environment and economic situations, this shift is now normal and dynamic. The most difficult task for women is balancing the responsibilities of family and job. The literature highlights numerous elements such as career development, work stress, professional aspiration, work family conflict and family work conflict, child care in relation to Work Life Balance (WLB) and related practices. This article provides an outline of the many obstacles and issues that women employees encounter in order to attain WLB.
(Alvi, 2021) Working from home might enhance a worker’s efficiency. Remote work allows you greater flexibility and reduces commute stress. It saves money for both the firm (office expenditures, rent, etc.) and the employee (transportation, car maintenance, parking fees, etc.)
The study discovered that persons between the ages of 18 and 30 scored substantially higher on work/life balance than those beyond the age of 31.
The younger group complained about ‘unpredictability regarding the task,’ while the elder group complained about ‘inadequate equipment.’
(Cook, 2021) The remote working paradigm caused by the pandemic gave the potential for a healthy work-life balance by remotely eliminating travel times, and more flexibility and control over working hours. However, after a year of working from home, that isn’t the case for everyone.
According to a Harvard Business Review study, mothers have felt the negative impact of remote working since females bear greater responsibility for household and child-rearing tasks than their male spouses. Because of the persistent gender stereotypes in the home, mothers are more likely to have homeschooled their children during COVID-19.
(Raju & Kumar, 2020) The objective of lock outing is to minimize the transmission of the community and to stop the pandemic COVID-19. The pandemic lock-down influences workers’ lifestyle strategies at work. Methods: A cross-cutting survey was performed using a web-based data collection (google form) in India and includes observation sampling size 110. Results: Local effects on life styling techniques such as physical, psychological, social and environmental variables have been proven to be important. Results: Most (from home women) participants demonstrated improved quality of life in the lock-down area
(Karthikeyan, 2014) The main variables in life are career and ambitions. The majority of women go to work to help their families. This shift, because of environmental and economic changes is now normal and dynamic. For women, the largest problem lies in balancing family and professional requirements. The literature recognizes numerous factors, such as career progression, work stress, career pursuit, family work disputes and family labor conflict, child care and related practices with regard to Work Life Balance (WLB). This article gives an outline of Women employees’ different problems and challenges in achieving WLB. The sources in this article include numerous publications, papers, websites, etc. The reference section has the specifics
(Yildirim & Eslen-Ziya, 2020) There is little question that the COVID-19 epidemic impacted the working circumstances of vast sectors of society. A rising number of journalistic stories highlighted the notion, mainly due to traditional sexual dividing of work in society, that a lockout induced by the pandemic has affected women and men in distinct ways. By conducting an original survey of almost 200 academics, we try to examine this often-quoted claim. We are exploring in particular the extent to which women and men are locked in their care, homework and home environments. Our data demonstrate that a variety of characteristics are linked to the lockdown impact on the working circumstances of academics in households, such as gender, childhood, perceived COVID 19 danger and job happiness. We also show that having children impacts women disproportionately as far as housekeeping is concerned
(Sarkar & Bureau, 2020) Females have also suffered from the “double burden syndrome,” in which they are now required to double their homework by increasing office labor loads, which have a major influence on their mental well-being
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