TORRES RETAMAL, LUIS DARIO

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TORRES RETAMAL, LUIS DARIO
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    Carrying the Domestic Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Gender, Class and the Domestic Division of Labour
    (SAGE Publications, 2025-11-08)
    Tracey Warren
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    TORRES RETAMAL, LUIS DARIO  
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    Clare Lyonette
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    Ruth Tarlo
    <jats:p>This article explores gender and class inequalities in the domestic division of labour in the UK. Inequalities in housework and caring are important: they shape who can enter the paid workforce and on what terms, impacting career progression, financial security, work–life balance and well-being. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, we knew women shouldered the heaviest burden of housework and caring, but far less was known about class variation among workers. The pandemic intensified housework and caring but it also provided opportunities for a re-evaluation of established practices. Drawing on secondary analysis of data from working-age employees in the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we find gender remained pivotal in shaping domestic working and childcaring, but women and men were living differently classed pandemic lives. The article contributes to interlinking sociological debates about the unpaid essential work within the home, women and men’s working lives during times of turbulence and class inequalities therein.</jats:p>
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    Class, gender and the work of working-class women amid turbulent times
    (2024-01-01)
    Warren, Tracey  
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    TORRES RETAMAL, LUIS DARIO  
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    Lyonette, Clare  
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    Tarlo, Ruth  
    The article focuses on the work of working-class women (WCW) amid turbulent times. Its timespan is just prior to and during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. The women's work, and the key skills involved, are fundamental to everyday lives, but both have been under-valued and under-rewarded. The pandemic shone a fresh light on the societal importance of this work and highlighted how its under-valuation and the women's systemic low pay and inferior working conditions have serious ramifications not only for individual workers and their families but for the provision of key services. The article centres WCW, at the intersection of classed and gendered disadvantage, to ask about inequalities in work experiences. Analysing nationally representative samples of thousands of workers in the UK prior to and as Covid-19 rolled out, we compare WCW with other workers. We show that the women faced both persistent and new inequalities at work: enduring low earnings, pandemic-led risks to jobs and paid hours, little opportunity to work from home or flexibly, and stressful key working roles. We reveal the heavily classed nature of some of these findings, show that others were more strongly gendered, while still others were classed and gendered outcomes that require intersectional analyses of the women's working lives.
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