TY - JOUR
T1 - Continuing working from home in the academic context
T2 - what do female academics prefer?
AU - Mousa, Mohamed
AU - Avolio, Beatrice
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Through addressing female academics in three public universities in Egypt, we aim to find out the extent to which female academics prefer to continue working from home (WFH) as a means of fulfilling their job responsibilities and the determinants for accepting or rejecting that option. A qualitative research method through semi-structured interviews with 33 female academics from three public universities selected from among 26 public institutions of higher education in Egypt. Moreover, our findings show that the preference to continue working from home varies across the addressed female academics, as they all differ in terms of workload, psychological well-being and the level of authority, control, and autonomy they have over their job. Furthermore, we identified familial commitments, availability of the information and infrastructure needed for work, cohesiveness when adopting WFH, and the extreme level of work from home as the four main determinants shaping the preferences of female academics in regard to working from home.
AB - Through addressing female academics in three public universities in Egypt, we aim to find out the extent to which female academics prefer to continue working from home (WFH) as a means of fulfilling their job responsibilities and the determinants for accepting or rejecting that option. A qualitative research method through semi-structured interviews with 33 female academics from three public universities selected from among 26 public institutions of higher education in Egypt. Moreover, our findings show that the preference to continue working from home varies across the addressed female academics, as they all differ in terms of workload, psychological well-being and the level of authority, control, and autonomy they have over their job. Furthermore, we identified familial commitments, availability of the information and infrastructure needed for work, cohesiveness when adopting WFH, and the extreme level of work from home as the four main determinants shaping the preferences of female academics in regard to working from home.
KW - Covid-19
KW - Egypt
KW - Work from home (WFH)
KW - female academics
KW - job demand-control theory
KW - public universities
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85158907141&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14767724.2023.2207122
DO - 10.1080/14767724.2023.2207122
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85158907141
SN - 1476-7724
JO - Globalisation, Societies and Education
JF - Globalisation, Societies and Education
ER -