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Pereira, Maria do Mar (2021) Researching gender inequalities in academic labor during the COVID-19 pandemic : avoiding common problems and asking different questions. Gender, Work, and Organization, 28 (S2). pp. 498-509. doi:10.1111/gwao.12618 ISSN 0968-6673.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12618
Abstract
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, a growing body of international literature is analyzing the effects of the pandemic on academic labor and, specifically, on gender inequalities in academia. In that literature, much attention has been devoted to comparing the unequal impacts of COVID-19 on the research activities of women and men, with studies demonstrating that women's research productivity has been disproportionately disrupted, in ways that are likely to have detrimental effects in the short- and long-term. In this paper, I discuss that emerging literature on gender inequalities in pandemic academic productivity. I reflect on the questions asked, the issues centered and the assumptions made within this literature, devoting particular attention to how authors conceptualize academic labor and productivity, on one hand, and gender, on the other. I show that this literature makes major contributions to exposing old and new gender inequalities in academia, but argue that it also risks reproducing some problematic assumptions about gender and about academic work. Discussing those assumptions and their effects, I identify some important questions for us to consider as we expand this literature and deepen our understanding of the complex gendered effects of COVID-19 on academic labor.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Gender, Work, and Organization | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley Blackwell | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0968-6673 | ||||||||
Official Date: | July 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 28 | ||||||||
Number: | S2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 498-509 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/gwao.12618 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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