Fermeture des écoles, enseignement à distance et réorganisation familiale. Les conséquences de la crise de la Covid sur les inégalités de genre en Suisse

During the 2020 pandemic, the sudden emergence of distance learning for children, combined with teleworking for parents, affected family organisation arrangements. Using data from a questionnaire filled in by 1.280 parents of primary school pupils in two Swiss cantons and a focus group interview conducted with six mothers, we explore how the supervision of children’s schoolwork was organised within parental couples and how it has been articulated with the parents’ professional activity and housework. Far from serving as a trigger for shared responsibility in couples, this period revealed and reinforced long-standing gender inequalities in the division of parental and domestic tasks.