"Academic guilt": The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on women's academic work. (September 2021)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- "Academic guilt": The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on women's academic work. (September 2021)
- Main Title:
- "Academic guilt": The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on women's academic work
- Authors:
- Walters, Cyrill
Ronnie, Linda
Jansen, Jonathan
Kriger, Samantha - Abstract:
- Abstract: According to anecdotal accounts, the guilt engendered by the conflict between employment and family that is pervasive in the academy (or "academic guilt, " in this paper) has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic-enforced lockdown. To date, there has been no systematic research that provides a detailed account of, and explanations for, the "academic guilt" experienced by women academics, in particular, outside of the Global North. The research team conducted a large-scale systematic survey of all female academic staff in a nationwide study of South Africa's 26 public universities during the period of the lockdown. A total of 2029 full responses were received from women at different stages in their academic careers. The survey included an open-ended section that allowed for detailed, unlimited responses by the participants; this section provided a substantial volume of qualitative data, which was coded and analyzed. Leveraging the richness of the open-ended survey data, this study presents findings showing significantly high feelings of "academic guilt" among women academics during the pandemic-enforced lockdown for a variety of reasons relating to the working conditions imposed by the lockdown mandates.
- Is Part Of:
- Women's studies international forum. Volume 88(2021)
- Journal:
- Women's studies international forum
- Issue:
- Volume 88(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 88, Issue 2021 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 88
- Issue:
- 2021
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0088-2021-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2021-09
- Subjects:
- Female academics -- Gender -- Academic guilt -- Maternal guilt -- Work–family guilt -- COVID-19
Women's studies -- Periodicals
Feminism -- Periodicals
305.4 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02775395 ↗
http://www.elsevier.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.wsif.2021.102522 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0277-5395
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