Abstract

REIS, Lucimar dos Santos  and  MOURAO, Luciana. Work-Family Balance: Challenges of Leaders who are Fathers and Mothers Working from Home in the Pandemic. Rev. Psicol., Organ. Trab. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.4, pp.2260-2268.  Epub Dec 02, 2024. ISSN 1984-6657.  https://doi.org/10.5935/rpot/2022.4.24359.

In the pandemic, many people worked remotely. The aim of this study was to discuss the routine and challenges of balancing work and family for fathers and mothers who are leaders, working from home during the pandemic. Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 women and 11 men, all with children. The interviews were conducted digitally and recorded. One text corpus was created for the men and another for the women, and they were all submitted to the Iramuteq system for similarity analysis. The results revealed three central axes of their speeches. In the Management axis, issues with the team's work routine appeared in both speeches, but the women's one also described issues with gender and race discrimination. In the Work Life axes for both leaders, the central issue was career-related. In the Family axis there were dissimilarities in work-family reconciliation with clear overload for women. This study broadens the discussion about the division of unpaid domestic work and discrimination in career development.

Keywords : work-family balance; gender; leadership; race.

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