Teleworking, an obstacle to gender equality?

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For Laetitia Vitaud, "The risky situation is when a small strategic team is still working in person, while the other employees kept at a distance strive to remain visible, and constantly seek to prove their personal contribution to the creation of value in the company."

For the researcher, it is from 20 years of professional facebook database experience that one has the maturity to manage one's time and finances. Employees who have accumulated years of professional experience are therefore the big winners of this boom in teleworking... when they do not have children. Indeed, the postponement of the age of the first child leads many confined forty-somethings to have to telework while managing young children.


Currently, the practice of teleworking does not seem to lead to a reduction in gender inequalities in professional life. For women, working at home is often synonymous with an increase in the time spent with children and domestic tasks. This is also what often motivates the demand for teleworking among women, while men request it to work better.

Laetitia Vitaud points out that the number of scientific research articles published by women during confinement fell by 50 to 70%.