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Persistence of patriarchy and its impact on women professionals working from home

Author Affiliations

  • 1Loyola College of Social Sciences, Sreekariyam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 13, Issue (3), Pages 20-22, July,14 (2024)

Abstract

The Pandemic and the pandemic induced lockdown have changed every aspect of our life, including the way of working. Work from home means one can work sitting from anywhere other than an office space. The mode of remote working gained momentum during the pandemic times. Considering the IT sector, work from home was implemented way back due its nature of work, but many other sectors administered work from home during the pandemic. The prime challenge posed by work from home is that the domestic and professional domains got mixed up; it imposed the burden especially on women thrice the times as compared to the pre-pandemic times. There is a preconceived notion that working from home would be much flexible, but it is not completely true. Especially married women professionals considers difficult to manage their paid work together with the unpaid domestic works, because of the dominant patriarchal norms and gender stereotypes. In this paper, an attempt is made to unveil how far patriarchal norms are relaxed or pronounced while women undertake work from home.

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