The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on first‐generation women test‐takers: Magnifying adversities, stress, and consequences for bar exam performance

Freiburger, Erin; Quintanilla, Victor D.; Hugenberg, Kurt; Erman, Sam; Yel, Nedim; Kim, Anita; Murphy, Mary C.

doi:10.1111/josi.12550

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“…Essentially, during the pandemic people assumed women would bear more household and childcare responsibilities compared to men, and any gains toward gender equity in this area evident pre‐pandemic were lost under the threat of COVID‐19. The negative impact of the global pandemic on some women's career productivity was also evident in a study of over 900 law students who had taken the bar exam in the US (Freiburger et al., 2022). A significant interaction of gender and first‐generation student status was clear, with first‐generation women having the lowest success in passing the bar exam, with COVID‐19 stress, primary caregiving responsibilities, and the need to work explaining these women's unique and distressful experiences.…”

Section: Gendered Reorganization Of Division Of Labor Impacts Work Lifementioning

confidence: 93%

Understanding women's work, children and families during the COVID‐19 global pandemic: Using science to support women around the globe

Dinella

Fulcher²,

Weisgram

2023

Journal of Social Issues

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Times of disaster disproportionately impact women, children, and vulnerable populations. Thus, concern about women's welfare became paramount as the intensity of the COVID‐19 global pandemic increased. Due to these concerns and the need to examine them from a scientific perspective, we announced a call for empirical and theoretical investigations into how women around the world were experiencing this time of disaster. We were especially interested in investigations that provided information that afforded intersectionality analyses; that is, those that recognized overlapping socially‐constructed systems of oppression such as patriarchy, white supremacy, and classism and how they impact the structures, institutions, agencies, and policies that change women's lives. We received an overwhelming response to our call from scholars around the world whose empirical and theoretical works focused on women's lives during the height of the global COVID‐19 pandemic, resulting in a two‐installment Special Issue on how the COVID‐19 pandemic magnified existing gender inequities. This installment aims to understand how the global pandemic has impacted women's work, children, and families around the world. Throughout both installments, scholars emphasize how empirical findings can and should drive social policies that ameliorate inequities and support women and their families.

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Section: Gendered Reorganization Of Division Of Labor Impacts Work Lifementioning

confidence: 93%

Understanding women's work, children and families during the COVID‐19 global pandemic: Using science to support women around the globe

Dinella

Fulcher²,

Weisgram

2023

Journal of Social Issues

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“…Structurally disadvantaged groups, such as first‐generation women taking the California bar exam in October 2020, scored lower on the bar exam post‐pandemic compared with first‐generation men. This performance difference was not due solely to COVID‐19 stress but resulted from the cumulative burden of pandemic‐related stress with the structural demands of primary caregiving and working while studying for a high‐stakes exam (Freiburger et al., 2022). Women in legal academia, who also face challenges in professional advancement and recognition, were likewise negatively impacted by the COVID‐19 pandemic (Deo, 2021).…”

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Gender disparity in the effects of COVID‐19 on academic productivity and career satisfaction in anesthesiology in the US: Results of a national survey of anesthesiologists

Jankowska

Pai

Lee

et al. 2023

Gender Work & Organization

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic created unprecedented challenges for anesthesiologists both at work and home. This study examined whether the pandemic affected academic productivity and career satisfaction among anesthesiologists practicing in the United States during the early stages of the pandemic and whether these effects differed by gender. A survey was emailed to 25,473 members of the American Society of Anesthesiologists to learn about their experiences during the beginning of the pandemic. The survey directed respondents to rate their change in academic productivity, clinical care hours, scholarly and leadership opportunities, income, childcare duties, and household responsibilities during the first 5 months of the pandemic (March 1–July 31, 2020). The primary variable was gender, academic productivity was the primary outcome, and data were analyzed by multivariable proportional odds logistic regression models and correlations. Female anesthesiologists reported lower academic productivity and career satisfaction relative to male anesthesiologists during the study period. Career satisfaction positively correlated with academic productivity. Compared to male anesthesiologists, female anesthesiologists also had more household responsibilities before and during the pandemic. Being a female parent reduced academic productivity relative to that reported by nonparents of either gender. In conclusion, the early months of the COVID‐19 pandemic had a greater adverse professional impact on female anesthesiologists than on their male counterparts. Efforts to support and retain female anesthesiologists, particularly those early in their careers and those with children, are essential for the specialty to maintain its workforce and promote gender equity in promotion and leadership.

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The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on first‐generation women test‐takers: Magnifying adversities, stress, and consequences for bar exam performance

Cited by 2 publications

References 86 publications

Understanding women's work, children and families during the COVID‐19 global pandemic: Using science to support women around the globe

Understanding women's work, children and families during the COVID‐19 global pandemic: Using science to support women around the globe

Gender disparity in the effects of COVID‐19 on academic productivity and career satisfaction in anesthesiology in the US: Results of a national survey of anesthesiologists

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