Canvas by Joanna Kim

Context/Research Qs

800982_3 — 2025-02-19 12:48:04 UTC

Women were always seen inferior to men, especially in the workplace in the past. However, the inequality has improved throughout the years. When COVID-19 struck, everyone faced challenges; however, there were others who gained opportunities to shine. Throughout the hardships women went through, did women in the workfield gain more opportunity from the COVID-19 pandemic?

Thesis

800982_3 — 2025-02-19 12:49:22 UTC

As COVID-19 resulted in shutdowns of schools, children and the elderly, who were most prone to the virus, needed care, in which women had to take on the difficult responsibility of domestic care, leaving work.

Claim 1

800982_3 — 2025-02-19 12:50:53 UTC

Working mothers with younger children faced the most burden, as they had to stay home to take care of their kids more than the fathers.

Evidence 1

805529_2 — 2025-02-19 12:51:16 UTC

Although men also care in the house, 75% of the domestic work in society is done by women (Power, 2020)

Evidence 2

800982_3 — 2025-02-19 12:52:04 UTC

According to Hayes and Lee, after the lockdown, the role of education and care for most children shifted to parents from teachers and caretakers (Hayes & Lee 2020).

Claim 2

805529_2 — 2025-02-19 12:53:15 UTC

Due to the high dependency on schools for childcare, children were in need of care causing stress for mothers and an increased need for domestic jobs.

Reasoning 1

805529_2 — 2025-02-20 12:39:49 UTC

Women were more expected to pick up the neglected housework and childcare that came from COVID-19 than men causing them to take lots of time off of work than wanted.

Reasoning 2

805529_2 — 2025-02-20 12:43:03 UTC

Schools helped provide relief for working parents as students needed no parental supervision. But the school closers left parents unable to leave their kids home alone

Claim 3/Counterclaim

800982_3 — 2025-02-24 12:12:59 UTC

People proclaim that the pandemic brought a sense of independence to students due to the need to overcome the academic difficulties that arose with COVID-19, resulting in women having more freetime to work, but students inevitably had to stay home, as they needed care.

Evidence 3

800982_3 — 2025-02-24 12:15:38 UTC

Stated by Ilmanto et al. (2021), even though students were gaining independence they still had to stay at home quarantining making parent supervision necessary as they had to accompany their children.

Reasoning 3

800982_3 — 2025-02-24 12:15:48 UTC

Since lockdowns started, students had to stay home anyway, as especially working mothers had difficulty choosing between work and childcare.