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Working from home made women academics feel worse than ever about juggling roles

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par Cyrill Walters, Postdoctoral fellow, Stellenbosch University
Armand Bam, Head of Social Impact and Senior Lecturer, Business School, Stellenbosch University

Academic guilt is well-established in literature on the work of women scholars who are simultaneously mothers and lecturers, homemakers and researchers, nurturers and administrators. It’s a sense of not being able to cope with conflicting demands on one’s time and is often accompanied by negative self-judgement.

In South Africa and around the world, women academics had to confront this challenge of multiple roles even more intensely when the COVID-19 pandemic forced them…

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