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Women academics felt worse than ever about working from home juggling roles

Workloads increased sharply, placing even more pressure on academics. [Courtesy]

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.

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