COVID-19’s silver linings: exploring the impacts of work–family enrichment for married working mothers during and after the COVID-19 partial lockdown in Ghana

IF 1.4 4区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Journal of Family Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-23 DOI:10.1080/13229400.2022.2103018

Kwaku Abrefa Busia, Francis Arthur-Holmes, A. Chan

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Recent scholarship suggests that women have disproportionately been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic amidst lockdowns and school closures which have altogether increased women’s caregiving burden, unpaid housework and stress levels. Notwithstanding its negative impacts, this article argues that the lockdowns and school closures related to COVID-19 also had beneficial outcomes for some working mothers who had to combine work and family roles. Drawing from qualitative interviews with 39 married working mothers in both formal and informal employment, we find that these women during and after the partial lockdowns in urban Ghana, experienced various outcomes of work-to-family enrichment (increased time spent with family, self-rated improved sleep health, financial security), family-to-work enrichment (reduced family demands, improved work performance and output) and a mix of both (cultivation of life skills, greater personal satisfaction and happiness). Applying a role expansionist framework, we show the ‘positive side’ of the pandemic for married working mothers who had to juggle work and family demands.

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新冠肺炎的一线希望：探索在新冠肺炎部分封锁期间和之后，工作-家庭富裕对已婚职业母亲的影响

摘要最近的学术研究表明，在封锁和学校关闭的情况下，女性受到新冠肺炎疫情的影响尤为严重，这些都增加了女性的护理负担、无偿家务和压力水平。尽管有负面影响，但这篇文章认为，与新冠肺炎相关的封锁和学校关闭也对一些必须兼顾工作和家庭角色的职业母亲产生了有益的结果。通过对39名正式和非正规就业的已婚职业母亲的定性采访，我们发现，在加纳城市部分封锁期间和之后，这些女性经历了从工作到家庭的丰富多彩的各种结果（与家人相处的时间增加，自评睡眠健康状况改善，经济保障），从家庭到工作的丰富（减少家庭需求，提高工作绩效和产出）以及两者的结合（培养生活技能，提高个人满意度和幸福感）。应用角色扩张主义框架，我们向那些不得不兼顾工作和家庭需求的已婚职业母亲展示了疫情的“积极一面”。

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Journal of Family Studies FAMILY STUDIES-

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3.20

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Family Studies is a peer reviewed international journal under the Editorship of Adjunct Professor Lawrie Moloney, School of Public Health, LaTrobe University; Australian Institute of Family Studies; and co-director of Children in Focus. The focus of the Journal of Family Studies is on the wellbeing of children in families in the process of change.