Teletrabajo y familia

Abstract

Faced with the closure of educational institutions due to the health crisis of Covid-19, school teachers were forced to teach virtual classes from home, generating a series of effects on their work and family life. The objective of this thesis is to explore the experiences of telework and family of school teachers mothers in the Metropolitan region of Chile, during the Covid19 pandemic. It is an exploratory-descriptive study where 18 semi-structured interviews were conducted remotely to school teachers mothers between 26 and 44 years of age, belonging to municipal, private subsidized and private paid establishments of the Metropolitan region of Chile, and analyzed through the narrative approach strategy. The sociology of the individual and gender lenses are considered as theoretical perspectives to analyze the participants' experiences. The results indicate that the extension of the workday and increase of the workload are related to the organization of the establishments; that being awarded to the telework law does not mean that the rights and working conditions are safeguarded and, finally, that the establishments have not generated proactive policies of conciliation for the teaching staff. Based on the experiences expressed by the teachers, it is suggested to establish a work schedule and an official means of communication among the school community; to hire personnel to lessen the administrative burden; and greater oversight of the working conditions of school teachers during the pandemic.