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T1 - ‘All the single ladies’ as the ideal academic during times of COVID-19?
AU - Høg Utoft, Ea
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Much of what has hitherto been written about women’s lived experiences of the coronavirus pandemic takes their status as mothers and the spouses of men for granted. Skewed care demands on women researchers working from home may translate into individual career disadvantage and cumulative, large‐scale gender inequalities in the future, which is undeniably a serious issue. However, the narrative that single, childfree women must currently, by contrast, be unconcernedly enjoying a surge of productivity needs to be nuanced. Therefore, with this paper, I autoethnographically discuss how living alone in the context of the Covid‐19 pandemic provides its own set of circumstances and is hardly problem‐free, which affects how one can deal with issues of academic productivity and work‐life balance. Also, I take issue with the premise that our productivity is the golden standard against which we and our worth should be measured while we are living through a global crisis.
AB - Much of what has hitherto been written about women’s lived experiences of the coronavirus pandemic takes their status as mothers and the spouses of men for granted. Skewed care demands on women researchers working from home may translate into individual career disadvantage and cumulative, large‐scale gender inequalities in the future, which is undeniably a serious issue. However, the narrative that single, childfree women must currently, by contrast, be unconcernedly enjoying a surge of productivity needs to be nuanced. Therefore, with this paper, I autoethnographically discuss how living alone in the context of the Covid‐19 pandemic provides its own set of circumstances and is hardly problem‐free, which affects how one can deal with issues of academic productivity and work‐life balance. Also, I take issue with the premise that our productivity is the golden standard against which we and our worth should be measured while we are living through a global crisis.
KW - autoethnography
KW - coronavirus
KW - productivity
KW - singlehood
KW - work–life balance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087297024&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/gwao.12478
DO - 10.1111/gwao.12478
M3 - Journal article
VL - 27
SP - 778
EP - 787
JO - Gender, Work and Organization
JF - Gender, Work and Organization
SN - 0968-6673
IS - 5
ER -