Télétravail: vers davantage d’égalité femmes/hommes dans la sphère familiale ?

Caroline Diard (), Virginie Hachard () and Dimitri Laroutis ()
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Caroline Diard: TBS - Toulouse Business School
Virginie Hachard: Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School
Dimitri Laroutis: CRIISEA - Centre de Recherche sur les Institutions, l'Industrie et les Systèmes Économiques d'Amiens - UR UPJV 3908 - UPJV - Université de Picardie Jules Verne

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Abstract: Suddenly and compulsorily practiced full-time between March and May 2020, telecommuting is taking root in companies in hybrid mode. Its obligation ends on February 2, 2022. Working from home has disrupted intra-family organization, contributed to increased workloads and situations of stress or isolation. Employees have been confronted with the need to organize family life and professional duties within the same space. Several studies have shown that this is done under unequal conditions, depending on where the household lives and its social position, as well as on gender (COCONEL study, 2020). A report by the French Senate (October 2021) evokes a wide range of possibilities offered to employees and questions remote working. Our work aims to demonstrate the influence of telecommuting on the possible emergence of gender inequalities through changes in home working conditions and the assumption of domestic and family tasks. The empirical part is based on a quantitative study conducted between February 3 and March 3, 2022, among 211 employees working from home. We mobilize the literature on remote working and gender inequalities in this context. The ambivalent results reveal that women are disadvantaged in the professional sphere, but not in the family sphere, by working from home. Men, on the other hand, were more likely to benefit from opportunities for advancement within the organization but get more involved in family tasks. Remote working could help to rebalance the division of labour in favour of gender equality.

Keywords: Gender; Inequality; Telework; Genre; Inégalités; Télétravail (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-04-14
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Published in Communication et Management : Revue internationale des sciences commerciales, 2026, 23, pp.73-107. ⟨10.54695/comma.231.art005⟩

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DOI: 10.54695/comma.231.art005

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