Abstract
This research aims to provide empirical evidence demonstrating gendered impacts of COVID-19. Previous research has demonstrated that disasters and crises have gendered effects because of deeply constructed gender roles in the social system. Education is one of the spheres in which we observe a huge transformation in people’s lives. Particularly academics and students are affected by the pandemic as education methods altered towards distanced education. All academics had to adapt their skills, knowledge, and working environments as being forced to teach from their home while taking care of their home responsibilities and their children who started homeschooling as well. Relevant literature demonstrated that women and men have different behavioral patterns towards home-based work. Women, once they start to work home-based, on the contrary to men, spend more time on childcare and housework, which reproduces and reinforces the existing gender roles. The negative impact of home-based work is also deeper in traditional societies such as Turkey. Therefore, this study is conducted in a relatively traditional society, Turkey, by focusing on highly educated faculty members. An online survey was conducted in the early days of the pandemic between June 8 and June 29, 2020, with a regionally representative sample of 1,497 academics. The survey includes both closed-ended and open-ended questions that will let us apply both quantitative (statistical analysis) and qualitative (discourse analysis) research techniques. This article aims to contribute to the work-life balance and home-based work literature by providing empirical evidence on the factors affecting female versus male academic productivity during the distance teaching experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results indicate that negative psychological effects of COVID-19, devoting time for domestic work, and devoting time for academic work during the outbreak were all gendered. Policy implications of the results are also discussed in the chapter.
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