Covıd-19 pandemi sürecinin yansımaları: Beyaz yakalı çalışan kadınlar örneği
Özet
In this study, the labor processes of white-collar women working in mid-level managerial positions in enterprises have been examined. Changes in working arrangements in business life, and nursery and school closures within the scope of COVID-19 measures, make it important to investigate white-collar women who are greatly affected by these changes. Due to the deepening gender roles, they are exposed to in this process, it is necessary to examine the labor of women working in the private sector. In this thesis, the labor processes of white-collar women who work in mid-level managerial positions have been discussed within the framework of the concepts such as unpaid labor, domestic, care work, gender roles and inequality, and work-life balance. In the study, using qualitative methods and techniques, in-depth interviews have been conducted with twenty women from different sectors, with the guidance of businesses in the industrial cooperation network of a research center and the restrictions created by the pandemic. In the light of the data obtained from the interviews, the home and work-life conditions of white-collar working women, the way they establish a work-life balance or experience this imbalance, how they experience paid and unpaid work under these conditions, and invisible labor forms have been investigated. Furthermore, in this process, their perceptions of gender roles and their expectations for the future were discussed on the axis of their experiences with the disease, their emotional states and strategies to cope with this process, and their experiences during the pandemic process.