The impacts of smart working on women. Lessons from the first lockdown in Italy

IF 1 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

International Review of Sociology-Revue Internationale de Sociologie Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI:10.1080/03906701.2022.2064666

Luisa De Vita, T. Mazali, Giovanna Campanella

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Before the pandemic, Italy was one of the European countries with the lowest numbers of remote workers, both in the form of tele working and smart working based upon digital mobile technologies. In addition to increasing remote working to 40% in Italy, the pandemic has also led to a noticeable rise in the number of women working from home. This change presents a valuable opportunity to redefine the ways, times, and mechanisms of conducting work. However, it also needs to be assessed more closely in relation to gender impacts. While, on the one hand, evaluations on smart working during the pandemic must necessarily consider the extraordinary emergency conditions in which it has come to be, on the other, its criticalities have primarily affected women. With the aim to analyse the differential impacts of smart working, this paper discusses the results of a web survey conducted during the first lockdown in Italy, involving a total of 470 women working remotely from home. The results of the research are particularly interesting and appear to indicate at least three significant spheres for a differential analysis of the impacts: burden of care; availability of space/equipment, and skills.

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聪明工作对女性的影响。意大利第一次封锁的教训

在大流行之前，意大利是远程工作人数最少的欧洲国家之一，无论是远程工作还是基于数字移动技术的智能工作。除了将意大利的远程工作增加到40%之外，这一流行病还导致在家工作的妇女人数显著增加。这种变化提供了一个重新定义开展工作的方式、时间和机制的宝贵机会。但是，还需要更密切地评价它对性别的影响。一方面，对大流行病期间聪明工作的评价必须考虑到发生这种情况的非常紧急情况，另一方面，这种情况的严重程度主要影响到妇女。为了分析智能工作的不同影响，本文讨论了意大利第一次封锁期间进行的一项网络调查的结果，该调查共涉及470名在家远程工作的女性。这项研究的结果特别有趣，似乎表明至少有三个重要的领域可以对影响进行差异分析:护理负担;可用的空间/设备和技能。

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International Review of Sociology-Revue Internationale de Sociologie SOCIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： International Review of Sociology is the oldest journal in the field of sociology, founded in 1893 by Ren Worms. Now the property of Rome University, its direction has been entrusted to the Faculty of Statistics. This choice is a deliberate one and falls into line with the traditional orientation of the journal as well as of the Institut International de Sociologie. The latter was the world"s first international academic organisation of sociology which started as an association of contributors to International Review of Sociology. Entrusting the journal to the Faculty of Statistics reinforces the view that sociology is not conceived apart from economics, history, demography, anthropology and social psychology.