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<bold>Aim/purpose</bold> – The impact of teleworking on the work-life balance is still not clear. Since women are the ones who tend to assume most of the domestic tasks, our paper aims to determine, in gender terms and with a theoretical approach, how the effects of teleworking may affect the division of domestic tasks and the reconciliation of the private and professional spheres.
<bold>Design/methodology/approach</bold> – This paper is based on a literature review and focuses on theoretical perspectives.
<bold>Findings</bold> – On the one hand, the flexibility offered by teleworking during the health crisis may have enabled women to achieve a better work-life balance by offering them the possibility of not having to stop working despite the family responsibilities they had to assume. On the other, the unequal distribution of unpaid domestic work, which has continued and even increased during the crisis, has forced many women to quit their jobs.
<bold>Research implications/limitations</bold> – The health crisis has shown that as long as teleworking is not organized in a way challenging the assumption of the home as a female environment, the office will stay a male environment with gender inequalities always prevailing between home and work.
<bold>Originality/value/contribution</bold> – This paper contributes to the literature on teleworking by highlighting that generalizing teleworking without considering gender aspects may be harmful to female workers. Such a finding is important in the actual context of the development of hybrid organizations.
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Aim/purpose – The impact of teleworking on the work-life balance is still not clear. Since women are the ones who tend to assume most of the domestic tasks, our paper aims to determine, in gender terms and with a theoretical approach, how the effects of teleworking may affect the division of domestic tasks and the reconciliation of the private and professional spheres.
Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a literature review and focuses on theoretical perspectives.
Findings – On the one hand, the flexibility offered by teleworking during the health crisis may have enabled women to achieve a better work-life balance by offering them the possibility of not having to stop working despite the family responsibilities they had to assume. On the other, the unequal distribution of unpaid domestic work, which has continued and even increased during the crisis, has forced many women to quit their jobs.
Research implications/limitations – The health crisis has shown that as long as teleworking is not organized in a way challenging the assumption of the home as a female environment, the office will stay a male environment with gender inequalities always prevailing between home and work.
Originality/value/contribution – This paper contributes to the literature on teleworking by highlighting that generalizing teleworking without considering gender aspects may be harmful to female workers. Such a finding is important in the actual context of the development of hybrid organizations.

Teleworking, task sharing, and work-life balance: A gender issue? Theoretical approach

Journal of Economics and Management

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Aim/purpose – The impact of teleworking on the work-life balance is still not clear. Since women are the ones who tend to assume most of the domestic tasks,...

Teleworking, task sharing, and work-life balance: A gender issue? Theoretical approach

Published Online: Nov 20, 2023

Page range: 374 - 412

Received: May 30, 2023

Accepted: Oct 12, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22367/jem.2023.45.15

Keywords
Teleworking, gender, repartition of domestic tasks, work-life balance

© 2023 Claire Dupont et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Teleworking, task sharing, and work-life balance: A gender issue? Theoretical approach

Published Online: Nov 20, 2023

Page range: 374 - 412

Received: May 30, 2023

Accepted: Oct 12, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22367/jem.2023.45.15

KeywordsTeleworking, gender, repartition of domestic tasks, work-life balance

© 2023 Claire Dupont et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Teleworking, gender, repartition of domestic tasks, work-life balance