Das alltägliche Arrangement von Homeoffice, Kinderbetreuung und Paarbeziehung

In the consequence of the so-called "first wave" of the Corona crisis and the accompanying phase of extensive measures to combat the pandemic in the spring of 2020, many
primarily academic employees had to relocate to home offices and parents had to care for their children at home. The aim of this gender sociological study was to empirically investigate, by means of interviews with couples, how working parents experienced their everyday life as a couple in the home office caused by the Corona pandemic and how they arranged employment, childcare and couple relationships. In the course of this, the thesis postulated by some sociologists of a "retraditionalization" of gender relations due to the pandemic was to be tested within the framework of the exploratively designed research question.