När tvättstugan blir det nya fikarummet : En kvalitativ studie om hur det nya hybrida arbetslivet riskerar att förstärka könsmaktsordningen

Sammanfattning: As covid-19 spread, it quickly forced work from home into many organizations. When the restrictions then eased, organizations chose to deal with the decline in offices in various ways. In this study, representatives of organizations that to varying degrees have opened up for work from home are interviewed. The purpose of the study is to investigate how organizations promote gender equality or reproduce the gender power order, based on work from home in the new hybrid working life after the covid-19 pandemic. Central to the study is to examine how organizations have handled the transition from work in the office to work from home and whether the gender equality perspective has been taken into account. The theoretical framework used includes Acker, Hirdman, Moss Kanter and Walby, which describe patriarchal structures, gender contracts, gender structuring and various processes for gender-based structures in organizations. The method that has been used is qualitative interviews with a semi-structured interview guide. The informants, who all work within HR, have all in one way or another been involved in how the new hybrid working life is to be handled within each organization. The results of the study show a varying degree of awareness of how the new hybrid working life affects men and women differently, but the majority of the organizations have not had a gender equality perspective at work. Several informants experience that women are more positive about working from home than men. The results also show to some extent that organizations with a larger proportion of men among employees seem to be less aware of the gender equality perspective or place less emphasis on it.