Leap Braden, Stalp Marybeth C, Kelly Kimberly
Mississippi State University.
University of Northern Iowa.
Sociol Inq. 2022 Apr 9. doi: 10.1111/soin.12488.
Across a range of countries, analysts have found that adaptations to the COVID-19 pandemic often exacerbated previously existing labor inequalities between men and women in formal employment markets and households. This has been especially true for mothers with children in their households. Drawing on decades of sociological and feminist scholarship on labor, we suggest the following three strategies to strengthen ongoing research concerning pandemic-induced reorganizations of gendered labor. First, ongoing research should expand considerations of gendered labor to account for more types of work and workers. Second, initial findings should be extended through the continued utilization of diverse methodologies to better account for the ambivalent experiences and meanings associated with emergent reorganizations of gendered work during the pandemic. Finally, ongoing research should pursue intersectional analyses of gendered labor that are sensitive to the complex dynamics of place and time. By expanding and strengthening considerations of gendered labor in these manners, ongoing analyses could generate more comprehensive, precise findings that better guide policy interventions meant to address the gendered inequities being sharpened by the pandemic. Foundational theoretical understandings of gendered labor and its associated inequalities could also be extended.
在一系列国家中，分析人士发现，对新冠疫情的适应往往加剧了正规就业市场和家庭中男女之间此前就已存在的劳动不平等。对于家中有孩子的母亲来说尤其如此。借鉴数十年来关于劳动的社会学和女权主义学术研究成果，我们提出以下三种策略，以加强有关疫情引发的性别化劳动重组的现有研究。首先，现有研究应扩大对性别化劳动的考量，以涵盖更多类型的工作和劳动者。其次，应通过持续运用多种方法来扩展初步研究结果，以便更好地解释疫情期间性别化工作新出现的重组所带来的矛盾经历和意义。最后，现有研究应进行性别化劳动的交叉分析，这种分析要对地点和时间的复杂动态保持敏感。通过以这些方式扩大和加强对性别化劳动的考量，现有分析可以得出更全面、精确的结果，从而更好地指导旨在解决因疫情而加剧的性别不平等问题的政策干预措施。对性别化劳动及其相关不平等的基础理论理解也可以得到扩展。
