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Double-Duty Caretaking During COVID-19 BG Ideas
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In this episode, Jolie speaks with Dr. Kei Nomaguchi, professor of sociology, and Dr. Sandra Faulkner, professor in the School of Media and Communication. They talk about their research exploring both the data and personal experiences of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected people navigating the demands between their professional jobs and their roles as caretakers.
Announcer:From Bowling Green State University and the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, this is BG Ideas.
Musical Intro:I'm going to show you this with a wonderful experiment.
Jolie: Hello, and welcome back to the Big Ideas podcast brought to you by the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society and the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. I'm Dr. Jolie Sheffer, associate professor of English and American culture studies and the director of ICS. Jolie: Due to the ongoing pandemic, we are not recording in the studio but remotely via phone and computer. As always, the opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of BGSU or its employees.
Jolie: Bowling Green State University and its campuses are situated in the Great Black Swamp and the lower Great Lakes region, homeland of the Wyandotte, Kickapoo, Miami, Pottawatomie, Ottawa, and multiple other Indigenous tribal nations present and past who were forcibly removed to and from the area. We recognize these historical and contemporary ties, and we honor the Indigenous individuals and communities who have been living and working on this land from time and memorial.
Jolie: Today, I'm joined by Dr. Kei Nomaguchi and Dr. Sandra Faulkner. Kei is a professor of sociology and a research affiliate with the Center for Family and Demographic Research and the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at BGSU. Kei's research explores various social and personal dimensions of parenting in the U.S.
Jolie: Sandra is a professor in the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. Her research focuses on how individuals navigate gender and sexuality through interpersonal communication and personal narrative. She often uses creative expression and autoethnography to explore her own negotiation of identity as a parent, partner, and professor. Today we're talking about how the pandemic has affected professionals who are also caretakers, but first I'd like to hear a little bit from both of you about your research and how you got into studying care work in particular. Kei, will you start us off?
Kei: Yes. Thank you, Jolie and thank you for the nice introduction. I'm interested in studying parents, parenting, parents, our relationships in the United States today and including work family conflict and parenting stress and the wellbeing of the parents and children. So well,I began my graduate study wanting to study gender inequality in workplace, but then I quickly realized that gender inequality in the workplace is deeply rooted in gender inequality within the family, especially care taking roles. And so, as we all know, the women disproportionally shoulder care taking responsibilities, and that prevents women from putting time and energy in their paid work activities. So that's how I sort of switched our interest in family, rather than workplace.
Jolie: What about for you,Sandra? How, what is your evolution as a scholar on this subject been?
Sandra:Well, initially I was interested in the kind of broad topic of difficult conversations in close relationships. And so I had started studying that in graduate school. I was interested in how partners, women in particular, negotiated sexual activity, sexual pleasure, in essence how they talked about sex and sexuality. And I will say by the way that I studied it kind of traditionally, and by traditionally, I mean, kind of traditional qualitative research. And so I think the evolution of my work moving toward more cr
In this episode, Jolie speaks with Dr. Kei Nomaguchi, professor of sociology, and Dr. Sandra Faulkner, professor in the School of Media and Communication. They talk about their research exploring both the data and personal experiences of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected people navigating the demands between their professional jobs and their roles as caretakers.
Announcer:From Bowling Green State University and the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, this is BG Ideas.
Musical Intro:I'm going to show you this with a wonderful experiment.
Jolie: Hello, and welcome back to the Big Ideas podcast brought to you by the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society and the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. I'm Dr. Jolie Sheffer, associate professor of English and American culture studies and the director of ICS. Jolie: Due to the ongoing pandemic, we are not recording in the studio but remotely via phone and computer. As always, the opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of BGSU or its employees.
Jolie: Bowling Green State University and its campuses are situated in the Great Black Swamp and the lower Great Lakes region, homeland of the Wyandotte, Kickapoo, Miami, Pottawatomie, Ottawa, and multiple other Indigenous tribal nations present and past who were forcibly removed to and from the area. We recognize these historical and contemporary ties, and we honor the Indigenous individuals and communities who have been living and working on this land from time and memorial.
Jolie: Today, I'm joined by Dr. Kei Nomaguchi and Dr. Sandra Faulkner. Kei is a professor of sociology and a research affiliate with the Center for Family and Demographic Research and the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at BGSU. Kei's research explores various social and personal dimensions of parenting in the U.S.
Jolie: Sandra is a professor in the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. Her research focuses on how individuals navigate gender and sexuality through interpersonal communication and personal narrative. She often uses creative expression and autoethnography to explore her own negotiation of identity as a parent, partner, and professor. Today we're talking about how the pandemic has affected professionals who are also caretakers, but first I'd like to hear a little bit from both of you about your research and how you got into studying care work in particular. Kei, will you start us off?
Kei: Yes. Thank you, Jolie and thank you for the nice introduction. I'm interested in studying parents, parenting, parents, our relationships in the United States today and including work family conflict and parenting stress and the wellbeing of the parents and children. So well,I began my graduate study wanting to study gender inequality in workplace, but then I quickly realized that gender inequality in the workplace is deeply rooted in gender inequality within the family, especially care taking roles. And so, as we all know, the women disproportionally shoulder care taking responsibilities, and that prevents women from putting time and energy in their paid work activities. So that's how I sort of switched our interest in family, rather than workplace.
Jolie: What about for you,Sandra? How, what is your evolution as a scholar on this subject been?
Sandra:Well, initially I was interested in the kind of broad topic of difficult conversations in close relationships. And so I had started studying that in graduate school. I was interested in how partners, women in particular, negotiated sexual activity, sexual pleasure, in essence how they talked about sex and sexuality. And I will say by the way that I studied it kind of traditionally, and by traditionally, I mean, kind of traditional qualitative research. And so I think the evolution of my work moving toward more cr
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