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Deepening inequalities: What did COVID‐19 reveal about the gendered nature of academic work?
Author(s) -
Górska Anna Maria,
Kulicka Karolina,
Staniszewska Zuzanna,
Dobija Dorota
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
gender, work and organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.159
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0432
pISSN - 0968-6673
DOI - 10.1111/gwao.12696
Subject(s) - work (physics) , pandemic , covid-19 , inequality , sociology , higher education , gender studies , gender inequality , political science , demographic economics , law , economics , engineering , medicine , virology , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This study discusses the gendered nature of the transformation of academic work, which has been accelerated by the COVID‐19 pandemic. We collected empirical material in spring 2020, at the peak of the pandemic, via 28 interviews with academics in Poland. The results illustrate the far‐reaching and lasting impacts of the pandemic on academia that reinforce existing gender inequalities and bring new ones. The study also reveals the invisible academic work, which is performed mostly by female faculty. This work, neither recognized nor rewarded in the course of women's academic careers, deepens the gendered organization of work in higher education institutions.