Gender and Educational Inequalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Insights from Poland

The global pandemic of COVID-19 has had a profound impact on many spheres of social life across the world. One of them has been the deepening of social inequalities and the aggravating of discrimination based on gender. Emerging studies in the field of education and occupation systems point to the f...

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Autores principales:	Małgorzata Krywult-Albańska, Łukasz Albański
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	educational inequalities gender inequalities COVID-19 pandemic Environmental effects of industries and plants TD194-195 Renewable energy sources TJ807-830 Environmental sciences GE1-350
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a7fc0a744d2d4e0cb063766f415afe952021-11-25T19:00:46ZGender and Educational Inequalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Insights from Poland10.3390/su1322124032071-1050https://doaj.org/article/a7fc0a744d2d4e0cb063766f415afe952021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/22/12403https://doaj.org/toc/2071-1050The global pandemic of COVID-19 has had a profound impact on many spheres of social life across the world. One of them has been the deepening of social inequalities and the aggravating of discrimination based on gender. Emerging studies in the field of education and occupation systems point to the fact that women seem to have been particularly affected, along with layoffs in those sectors of the economy where female staffs prevail. Additionally, in many countries, the burden of combining professional careers and supporting the education of young children falls disproportionately on mothers. These transformations pose a challenge to meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, wherein gender equality is an important factor. This article uses official statistical data to examine gender and educational structures during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland, set against the backdrop of other European nations and analyzed in the context of sustainability. Have educational and gender inequalities been exacerbated as data from other countries suggest? In order to answer this question, the article traces changes in the education system in Poland and their implications for gender structures. The latter have also been affected by transformations on the labor market in various sectors of the economy, therefore, the second part of the analysis focuses on the labor market changes during the pandemic. The final section offers conclusions on the implications of the pandemic for the studied issues. Throughout the article, we apply the principles of unobtrusive research. Following the theoretical framework outlined in the first part of the paper, we carry out a descriptive analysis of existing statistical data collected by the Eurostat. These official statistics are supplemented by an overview of public opinion polls to allow for perspectives on structural changes, as they are perceived by those affected by them.Małgorzata Krywult-AlbańskaŁukasz AlbańskiMDPI AGarticleeducational inequalitiesgender inequalitiesCOVID-19 pandemicEnvironmental effects of industries and plantsTD194-195Renewable energy sourcesTJ807-830Environmental sciencesGE1-350ENSustainability, Vol 13, Iss 12403, p 12403 (2021)
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description	The global pandemic of COVID-19 has had a profound impact on many spheres of social life across the world. One of them has been the deepening of social inequalities and the aggravating of discrimination based on gender. Emerging studies in the field of education and occupation systems point to the fact that women seem to have been particularly affected, along with layoffs in those sectors of the economy where female staffs prevail. Additionally, in many countries, the burden of combining professional careers and supporting the education of young children falls disproportionately on mothers. These transformations pose a challenge to meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, wherein gender equality is an important factor. This article uses official statistical data to examine gender and educational structures during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland, set against the backdrop of other European nations and analyzed in the context of sustainability. Have educational and gender inequalities been exacerbated as data from other countries suggest? In order to answer this question, the article traces changes in the education system in Poland and their implications for gender structures. The latter have also been affected by transformations on the labor market in various sectors of the economy, therefore, the second part of the analysis focuses on the labor market changes during the pandemic. The final section offers conclusions on the implications of the pandemic for the studied issues. Throughout the article, we apply the principles of unobtrusive research. Following the theoretical framework outlined in the first part of the paper, we carry out a descriptive analysis of existing statistical data collected by the Eurostat. These official statistics are supplemented by an overview of public opinion polls to allow for perspectives on structural changes, as they are perceived by those affected by them.
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title	Gender and Educational Inequalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Insights from Poland
title_short	Gender and Educational Inequalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Insights from Poland
title_full	Gender and Educational Inequalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Insights from Poland
title_fullStr	Gender and Educational Inequalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Insights from Poland
title_full_unstemmed	Gender and Educational Inequalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Insights from Poland
title_sort	gender and educational inequalities during the covid-19 pandemic: preliminary insights from poland
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Gender and Educational Inequalities during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Insights from Poland

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