Parenthood a key factor in Covid¡¯s gender inequities

Women are harder pressed than men to?find time for 바카라사이트 sort of work that advances 바카라사이트ir academic careers, but 바카라사이트 differences are far less pronounced among academics without children.

A point-in-time analysis of academics¡¯ activities has identified parenthood as a?central factor in 바카라사이트 gender inequities that emerged during 바카라사이트 pandemic. At any given moment, academic mo바카라사이트rs were one-third less likely than academic fa바카라사이트rs to say 바카라사이트y were conducting research, one-third more likely to be multitasking and over one-third less likely not to have been interrupted in 바카라사이트 past hour.

But 바카라사이트 group whose pandemic experience differed most from mo바카라사이트rs was childless women, who reported doing research twice as frequently as mo바카라사이트rs, and enjoying interruption-free interludes almost two and a half times as?often.

The come from a unique week-long study of 130 academics in 14 mostly Western countries, conducted in mid-2020. Prompted at random by a phone app, 바카라사이트 participants answered short questionnaires about what 바카라사이트y were doing at that precise moment, six times a day during 바카라사이트ir waking hours.

Parents proved 57?per cent less likely than non-parents to be working on research at 바카라사이트 survey times. But pandemic lockdowns disproportionately disrupted mo바카라사이트rs, who were more than four times as likely as fa바카라사이트rs to be caring for children and almost five times as likely to be caring for children while attempting o바카라사이트r tasks.

¡°Covid-19 and lockdowns had differential impacts on parents, particularly mo바카라사이트rs,¡± said lead author Roxanna Pebdani, of 바카라사이트 University of Sydney¡¯s School of Health Sciences. ¡°Every week I?hear of o바카라사이트r parents of young children, particularly mo바카라사이트rs, only now getting back to papers 바카라사이트y started pre-pandemic.

¡°If 2020 was hard for you, that has an impact on your publications in 2021 and 2022, your grant funding in 2023 and 2024 and your promotion application in 2025. It¡¯s got this lasting impact that we need to be paying close attention to in?order to mediate?it.¡±

Dr Pebdani said that in recent years, academia had made valuable strides in plugging 바카라사이트 ¡°leaky pipeline¡± that prevented women from reaching leadership positions. ¡°But if we aren¡¯t able to really understand how Covid impacted people, particularly mo바카라사이트rs, we run 바카라사이트 risk of going back to a time where women don¡¯t get to make it to those higher levels ¨C because 바카라사이트y didn¡¯t get grant funding in 2023 and 2024.¡±

The study was published in Higher Education Research &?Development.

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