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The analysis addresses gender disparity across personal caregiving for children and older adults and professional caregiving duties shaped by “ideal worker” workplace cultures. Findings show women experience higher emotional exhaustion even when controls are applied. 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Vadnais  \nUniversity of Manitoba  \nTracey Peter  \nUniversity of Manitoba  \nJennifer Dengate  \nUniversity of Manitoba  \nAnnemieke Farenhorst University of Manitoba  \nCatherine Mavriplis University of Ottawa  \nAbstract  \nGender disparity persists in the personal caregiving of children and older adults, and in professional caregiving duties, with many workplace policies and cultures favoring the “ideal worker” and presenting significant and continuing barriers to female caregivers’ professional success and well-being. The recent pandemic both highlighted and augmented this disparity as schools, daycares, and adult care facilities closed or implemented restrictions. This study interprets results from the July 2021 Canadian Natural Sciences & Engineering (NSE) Faculty Workplace Climate Survey by empirically assessing the impact on emotional exhaustion of the increased caregiving burden during the COVID-19 pandemic on female academics in the highly masculinized NSE fields. Results indicate that women were more likely to experience emotional exhaustion even when other factors were considered. Collegiality and inclusion were found to be protective factors, illustrating important implications for, and the retention and support of, success and well-being of female NSE academics.  \nKeywords: emotional exhaustion, caregiving, COVID-19 pandemic, gender, collegiality and inclusion, faculty  \nRésumé  \nLa disparité entre les genres persiste dans la prestation de soins personnels aux enfantset aux personnes âgées : certaines cultures et politiques organisationnelles favorisent le « travailleur idéal » et présentent des obstacles importants pour la réussite professionnelle et le bien-être des mères de jeunes enfants et des aidantes naturelles. La récente pandémie a souligné et accru cette disparité : les écoles, garderies et établissements de soins ont fermé complètement ou partiellement, laissant les tâches aux familles concernées. Nous présentons ici les résultats de l’Enquête canadienne sur le climat de travail pour le corps professoral en sciences naturelles et en génie (SNG), menée en 2021 : cette étude empirique analyse l’impact de l’augmentation du fardeau de la prestation de soins pendant la pandémie de COVID-19 sur l’épuisement émotionnel des professeures. Les résultats indiquent que les femmes étaient plus susceptibles d’éprouver de l’épuisement émotionnel que les hommes, et que la collégialité et l’inclusion se sont révélées comme des facteurs de protection.  \nMots-clés : épuisement émotionnel, prestation de soins, pandémie de COVID-19, genres, collégialité et inclusion, corps professoral  \nCanadian Journal of Higher Education | Revue canadienne d’enseignement supérieur  \n54:1 (2024)  \nINTRODUCTION AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE  \nWork, running your home, childcare, homeschooling all came down at once as an avalanche, and from what I’ve seen, predominantly on female faculty members. (P71, Female, White)  \nPost-secondary education landscapes, with their demands for high productivity, are hierarchical, male-dominated, and entrenched in policies and procedures designed to fit the “ideal worker”(described by Acker as a “gender neutral, abstract worker who has no body and no obligations outside the workplace: this worker isunencumbered” [Acker, 2012, p. 218]) . Increasingly academic institutions have shifted from a focus on knowledge production and acquisition toward a capitalistic model. For academics, this has meant an increased number of students, classes, and service and administrative tasks, as well asa greater expectation to generate revenue through external research funding (Heller, 2016; Pope-Ruark, 2022; Sabagh et al. , 2018; Watts & Robertson, 2011; Zábrodská et al. , 2018) .  \nDespite these general trends, there is an additional gendered element found in post-secondary institutions. The gendered landsc","cbCaim8eE8J4MLS6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaim8eE8J4MLS6","pdf",282061,14,"English","# Introduction and Review of the Literature\n## Gendered academic work and the “ideal worker” model\n## Caregiving responsibilities and added barriers for women in NSE","[{\"question\":\"What question does the study address about COVID-19 and female NSE academics?\",\"answer\":\"It assesses how the pandemic increased caregiving burdens and how that change affected emotional exhaustion for women in highly masculinized natural sciences and engineering fields.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the results show regarding emotional exhaustion?\",\"answer\":\"Women were more likely to experience emotional exhaustion than men, even after considering other factors.\"},{\"question\":\"Which workplace factors are identified as protective?\",\"answer\":\"Collegiality and inclusion are found to be protective factors, with implications for retention and support of female NSE academics.\"}]","COVID-19 Caregiving Avalanche: The Impact on Emotional Exhaustion on Female Natural Science and Engineering Academics | PDF",1792084267,35]