Accidental Flexibility: The Effects of COVID-19-Induced Remote Learning on Graduate Student Mothers.

IF 1.1 3区 社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Canadian Review of Sociology-Revue Canadienne De Sociologie Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI:10.1111/cars.70004
Andrea DeKeseredy
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Graduate student mothers are in a unique position, balancing the competing roles of mother, student, and worker. The struggle to balance these roles often results in family-to-work conflict, an integral piece in maintaining gender inequality within universities and other similarly structured organizations. For a moment in time, the COVID-19 pandemic upended these organizations, changing the ways mothers performed their dueling roles through the removal of key resources and changes in flexibility. Using semi-structured interviews with 19 participants conducted throughout the fall and winter of 2022, this study explores how the lives of graduate student mothers were affected by the COVID-19 outbreak and shift to remote learning. For some, the pandemic negatively affected their progress due to a loss of resources and increased unpredictability. However, for others, the pandemic alleviated conflict between their dueling roles, allowing them to better manage their responsibilities regardless of interruptions in child care. The findings of this study contribute to a larger understanding of how organizational structure maintains inequality and how policies like remote work and child care may influence it.

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期刊介绍: The Canadian Review of Sociology/ Revue canadienne de sociologie is the journal of the Canadian Sociological Association/La Société canadienne de sociologie. The CRS/RCS is committed to the dissemination of innovative ideas and research findings that are at the core of the discipline. The CRS/RCS publishes both theoretical and empirical work that reflects a wide range of methodological approaches. It is essential reading for those interested in sociological research in Canada and abroad.
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