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Literature  \nMara De Giusti Bordignon & Melody Viczko Western University  \nAbstract  \nThe COVID-19 pandemic has impacted academic labour, with women being disproportionately negatively affected. This scoping review provides an exploratory snapshot into the corpus of literature investigating the impact of the pandemic on academic labour. We used a set of criteria to first identify the 86 titles from which we selected 45 as the data set. We analyzed the data on characteristics of location, investigative methods, publication information, and discipline. The findings showed that most of the data were global in context; used primarily qualitative methodologies; published in a wide variety of journals; and spanned diverse disciplines, including science and health, education, business, sociology, and political sciences. We then analyzed the data thematically. The themes we identified were gender inequity, identities and intersectionality, performing work-home binaries, and invisible labour. We added a fifth theme, lived experiences, consisting of women academics’ firsthand accounts. We consider this theme unique, despite its overlap with the other themes, because it is evidence of women academics telling their personal stories. We discuss how our findings show that pandemic conditions worsened existing inequities. The solutions most often cited in the data place emphasis and responsibility on the individual, but we argue that institutions should instead be responsible to redress inequities through improving workplace labour processes. Our research can aid future research on how policy theory can inform socially just policies and practices in the post-pandemic university.  \nKeywords: women, academic labour, COVID-19 pandemic, higher education  \nIntroduction  \nThe COVID-19 pandemic made visible and exacerbated structural gender inequities in higher education. This article provides an overview of the general characteristics (i.e., geographical location, investigative methods, publication information, and discipline) and a thematic analysis of a corpus of literature investigating the impact of the pandemic on academic labour. Our study aimed to identify emerging themes as indicators of key issues women academics faced during the pandemic. The main research question was: What key themes arise from literature focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women academics?  \nThe literature published during the pandemic is a snapshot into the lives of women academics and points to issues, tensions, and struggles they experienced. In this article, we begin by highlighting key themes that exist in the literature from pre-pandemic times. Next, we provide an overview of the methodology we used to collect and analyze the literature, followed by a presentation and discussion of various themes we used to organize the research literature. These themes provide insight into how the pandemic exacerbated the struggles and challenges women academics already face. Previous studies  \ncorroborate similar findings, with women academics disproportionately negatively affected by increased and shifting work responsibilities and increased domestic childcare and household duties, subsequently leading to decreased research productivity. Future ramifications include stunted career progression, decreased opportunity for research funding, increased unsustainable work responsibilities, and detrimental impact to mental and physical health. While a return to relative normal after the pandemic is uncertain, the continuation of normalized concepts as harmful and detrimental to women’s progress in academia seems ongoing.  \nThe authors of this study are two women academics who work at a faculty of education department at a large research-intensive university in Ontario, Canada. 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