Publications

Authors:

Carreri, Anna; Naldini, Manuela; Tuselli, Alessia

Title:

Inequalities in Academic Work during COVID-19: The Intersection of Gender, Class, and Individuals’Life-Course Stage

Year:

2024

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Referee:

No

Name of journal:

SOCIAL SCIENCES

ISSN of journal:

2076-0760

Page numbers:

1-20

Keyword:

academic work; academic career; COVID-19 pandemic; gender; intersectionality; work–life balance; class

Short description of contents:

Research studies on academic work and the COVID-19 crisis have clearly shown that the pandemic crisis contributed to exacerbating pre-existing gender gaps. Although the research has been extensive in this regard, it has focused more on the widening of the “motherhood penalty”, while other groups of academics are blurred. Even more underinvestigated and not yet fully explained are the intersections between further axes of diversity, often because the research conducted during the pandemic was based on a small volume of in-depth data. By drawing on interview data from a wider national research project, this article aims to contribute to this debate by adopting an intersectional approach. In investigating daily working life and work–life balance during the pandemic of a highly heterogeneous sample of 127 Italian academics, this article sheds light on how gender combines with other axes of asymmetry, particularly class (precarious versus stable and prestigious career positions) and age (individuals’ life-course stage), to produce specific conditions of interrelated (dis)advantage for some academics. The analysis reveals three household and family life course types that embody the interlocking of gender, class, and age within a specific social location with unequal, and possibly long-term, consequences for the quality of working life, well-being, and careers of academics, living alone or with parents, couples without children or with grown-up children, and couples with young children and other family members in need of care.

Product ID:

138417

Handle IRIS:

11562/1121688

Last Modified:

January 23, 2025

Bibliographic citation:

Carreri, Anna; Naldini, Manuela; Tuselli, Alessia, Inequalities in Academic Work during COVID-19: The Intersection of Gender, Class, and Individuals’Life-Course Stage «SOCIAL SCIENCES» , 2024 , pp. 1-20

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