​מבט מעבר למשבר: משפחה ועבודה בסגרי הקורונה ואחריהם: [מתוך השער: מאמרים]

Previous studies on how dual-earner couples responded to the COVID-19 lockdowns indicated enhanced activities of doing gender (preferring family work for women and paid work for men), assuming that their findings would remain relevant to couples’ coping even after the lockdowns. We questioned this assumption and present an empirical examination of dual-earner couples’ work and family organization, by subjecting the matter to a comparison between three periods: prior, during, and after the lockdowns. To enable a qualitative analysis of the comparison, we developed a theoretical synthesis connecting life course theory, border permeability, and doing/undoing gender. Such a synthesis offers the possibility to observe a reverse development, from which we derived our research question: How did perceptions of family work and paid work change between the three periods?