During the WFRN conference there will be a whole session, chaired by Prof. Anna Kurowska, PI of Familydemic project, dedicated to the presentation of the first results of the analyses carried out on the Familydemic Survey data in participating countries.
The session aims at presenting the first results from the Familydemic – a unique international survey on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on work and family among parents with children at home, carried out between June and September 2021 in six countries representing different welfare regimes: Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the US. The Familydemic dataset consists of a wide variety of variables from questions covering topics such as work and care arrangements, homeschooling, fertility intentions, gender ideologies and well-being from about 25,000 respondents in total. The survey not only gathered information on the situation of respondents at the moment of the interview, but also included several retrospective questions about their situation before the outbreak of the pandemic and during the pandemic, including monthly data on employment arrangements of the respondents and their partners between March 2020 and June 2021. This enables us to uncover the trajectories and long-term changes to broad aspects of work and family in pandemic times in a broad variety of institutional and cultural contexts. This session aims to briefly present the Familydemic dataset to the public and show the first results of analyses carried out using single country data, as well as a large, comparative study using data from all six countries. The single-country papers focus on previously un(der)explored issues, such as individual experiences of informal pressure to work at the office during the pandemic (Sweden); the role of union representation for safeguarding workers from undesirable outcomes of confinement measures and lockdowns (US); the role of Covid-19 induced home-based work experiences for fertility intentions (Poland); the factors explaining use of the home office under different policy regulations (Germany) and mixed relationships between parental leave, flexible work, and fathering responsibilities during pandemic times (Canada). The comparative study focuses on the role of changes to functioning of childcare and schooling institutions, related to the first and subsequent waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, on employment trajectories and long-term employment outcomes of men and women, as well as the division of labour in families in different cultural and institutional contexts.
- Who Went to Work during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Sweden?. …..Cassandra Engeman, Stockholm University – Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI); Ann-Zofie Duvander, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mid Sweden University
- A Safeguard in Times of Crisis? Union Membership and Changes to Employment and Working Conditions during the COVID-19 Pandemic. …..Shirley Gatenio Gabel, Fordham University; Cassandra Engeman, Stockholm University – Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI); Gayle Kaufman, Davidson College; Richard J. Petts, Ball State University
- The Access to Home-based Work Gained during the Covid-19 Pandemic and Changes in Fertility Intentions among Men and Women. …..Anna Kurowska, University of Warsaw; Anna Matysiak, University of Warsaw; Beata Osiewalska, University of Warsaw
- Fathering, Parenting Leaves, Flexible Work, and Care/work Responsibilities: A Mixed-Methods Canadian Study. …..Kim de Laat, Department of Sociology at Brock University and The Vanier Institute of the Family; Andrea Doucet, Brock University
- How Can the Differences in Home Office Use Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany be Explained?. …..Thordis Reimer, Universität Hamburg
- Confinement policies due to Covid-19 pandemic and working arrangements of parents accross countries. …..Anna Kurowska, University of Warsaw; Ilyar Heydari Barardehi, University of Warsaw.
