<論文>COVID-19 緊急事態宣言下における在宅勤務の実態調査 --家族およびジェンダーへの効果を中心に--

Abstract

The survey we conducted, the first such survey in Japan, on working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, made it clear, first, that the stay-at-home policy combining working from home and closing the schools has greatly increased the housework and child-rearing burden on the family, and the weight of that burden has had a debilitating effect on women who primarily have to bear it. The burden falls particularly heavily on women with children and especially on women with children who are staying at home from school. The second area of note is that many people feel that working from home has improved their family relations. Men in particular feel this. To ensure that even after the COVID-19 pandemic has ended, working from home becomes part of the “new normal, ” we need to construct a social system that pays more attention to sustainable human reproduction by rebuilding social care, revising corporate labour management and redefining gender roles.