Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the personal, professional, and academic routines of female Brazilian teleworkers. This study aims to analyze the impact of teleworking on the lives of Brazilian women amid the pandemic. The method was a quantitative and exploratory approach, and an online cross-sectional survey conducted with 478 women. The results showed a positive correlation between academic routines and teleworking (p < 0.05; r > 0.00) and a significant association between emotional health and academic routines (p < 0.001). Black women were shown to expend more effort toward academic activities than White women (p < 0.044). The study results contribute to the social sciences by demonstrating the impact of COVID-19 on Brazilian women in teleworking and indicate potential implications for policy formulation and public management in Brazil.
Highlights
Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic brought about several challenges; in Brazil, it significantly impacted the labor market, causing a net loss of 1.4 million jobs from March to June 2020
Most women (89.12%) reported that, at some point, they felt depressed for no specific reason; their emotional health did positively correlate with an inability to separate their academic routines (p < 0.001) and teleworking and between emotional health and personal routine (p = 0.014)
Our findings showed that older women who have more children (p < 0.001; r = 0.47) tend to strive harder to fulfill their personal tasks, which can impact their professional routine in teleworking, confirming H4 (Age and a higher number of children affect teleworking in women)
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about several challenges; in Brazil, it significantly impacted the labor market, causing a net loss of 1.4 million jobs from March to June 2020 After this loss, from July to October 2020, 1.1 million jobs were created, but 300,000 jobs are yet to be recovered, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL, 2021). Undurraga and Hornickel (2021) emphasized that the pandemic exacerbated vulnerabilities of women in Chile, generating visible impacts in various spheres of their lives, such as decreased mental health, increased violence, overloaded care services, and reduced participation in the labor market They pointed out that patriarchy is visible in companies and that the main issue for women relates to the conciliation between work and family. They categorized teleworking into three types − fixed, mobile, and flexible − and described the following four teleworking dimensions: job location, information and communication technology, time distribution, and contract type between worker and employer
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