Persistent pandemic: The unequal impact of COVID labor on early career academics

IF 3.9 1区 社会学 Q2 MANAGEMENT Gender Work and Organization Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI:10.1111/gwao.13092
Edmée Ballif, Isabelle Zinn
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The COVID-19 pandemic has not only highlighted preexisting inequalities in academia but has also exacerbated them while giving rise to novel forms of disparities. Drawing upon our experiences as women, parents, and early career academics (ECAs) in Switzerland and enriched by feminist theory on reproductive labor and carework, we examine the unequal impacts of the pandemic. First, our analysis reveals how the pandemic disproportionately impacted ECAs, a group already in a position of precarity within academia. Second, we identify the broad range of tasks brought about by the pandemic as “COVID labor”. This essential labor—undervalued, invisible, and often unpaid—had a particularly negative impact on ECAs. Third, looking at various intersections of difference, we emphasize that the experience of COVID labor was far from uniform among ECAs with institutional responses disregarding its extent and unequal distribution. In conclusion, we underscore the importance of acknowledging the long-term consequences of COVID labor on ECAs, particularly those belonging to underrepresented groups. Neglecting these issues may lead to the loss of a wide range of talented scholars for reasons that are not related to the quality of their academic performance.

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持续流行:COVID 劳动对早期职业学者的不平等影响
COVID-19 大流行不仅凸显了学术界原有的不平等现象,而且还加剧了这些不平等现象,同时产生了新形式的差异。根据我们作为瑞士女性、父母和早期职业学者(ECAs)的经验,并借鉴关于生育劳动和护理工作的女权主义理论,我们对这一流行病的不平等影响进行了研究。首先,我们的分析揭示了疫情如何对学术界中本已处于不稳定地位的早期职业学者(ECAs)造成了不成比例的影响。其次,我们将大流行病带来的各种任务定义为 "COVID 劳动"。这种基本劳动--价值被低估、无形且往往无报酬--对非洲经委会产生了特别不利的影响。第三,从各种差异的交叉点来看,我们强调,在非洲经委会中,"COVID 劳动 "的经历并不一致,机构的应对措施无视其程度和不平等的分布。总之,我们强调必须认识到 COVID 劳动对非洲经委会的长期影响,特别是那些属于代表 性不足群体的非洲经委会。忽视这些问题可能会导致大量有才华的学者因与其学术表现质量无关的原因而流失。
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期刊介绍: Gender, Work & Organization is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal was established in 1994 and is published by John Wiley & Sons. It covers research on the role of gender on the workfloor. In addition to the regular issues, the journal publishes several special issues per year and has new section, Feminist Frontiers,dedicated to contemporary conversations and topics in feminism.
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