...Katy Marsh-Davies; Evelyn Lanka; Louise Suckley Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic was a time when most women, including academics, faced increased challenges. Some women academics, however, told us that they had positive experiences during lockdown. This article explores how identity work and job...

... nationally in 2020 which was the year when COVID-19 virus outbreak took place. Earning disadvantage of visible minority immigrants was lower in Atlantic Canada than nationally. Labour market in Atlantic Canada continued to complement the roles of governments and communities in regionalization of immigration...

...Priya Kataria; Shelly Pandey Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the experiences of middle-class working mothers from the ITES (Information Technology Enabled Service) sector in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their experiences of work from home are studied in the backdrop...

... the exacerbated impact of Covid-19 on their lives. The impact of the pandemic on marginal tea garden women laborers has not received enough attention from researchers; hence, the authors have studied the gendered implications of the pandemic on Adivasi temporary women workers in tea gardens in India. “Adivasi...

... into employee challenges and motivational factors to arrive at practical mitigation efforts. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a qualitative approach involving 14 semi-structured interviews with casino employees in Malaysia. Interviews lasted 30 min to 2 h at a time when Covid-19 was raging...

...Kristin S. Williams; Heidi Weigand; Sophia Okoroafor; Giuseppe Liuzzo; Erica Ganuelas Weigand Purpose This paper explores intergenerational perceptions of kindness in the context of Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and the COVID-19 global pandemic. The purpose of this exploratory study...

...Deni̇z Palalar Alkan; Mustafa Ozbilgin; Rifat Kamasak Purpose Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had an adverse impact on workforce diversity internationally. While in the Global North, many countries have sophisticated laws and organizational mechanisms and discourses to deal...

... and organizations. This study explores how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic impacted skilled newcomer women's labour market outcomes and work experiences. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on 50 in-depth questionnaires with skilled women to elaborate on their work experiences during the ongoing COVID-19...

...Danielle M. Gardner; Caitlin Q. Briggs; Ann Marie Ryan Purpose As COVID-19 cases rose in the US, so too did instances of discrimination against Asians. The current research seeks to understand and document discrimination toward Asians in the US specifically linked to the global pandemic (study 1...

... countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The article draws attention to prejudicial shortcomings towards vulnerable migrant communities enacted by the states of Italy and Australia in response to COVID-19. Findings While the unequal ecology of the pandemic has flared up...

...Enrique-Javier Díez-Gutiérrez; Katherine Gajardo Espinoza Purpose March 14, 2020, marked the beginning of an unexpected state of emergency in Spain due to the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). From that moment on, the educational system had to adapt so that millions of students...

... immunity. This vulnerable section of the population has been rendered furthermore vulnerable by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in ways that were never imagined before. Taking this into consideration, the purpose of this article is to examine the vulnerability of the poor in the urban settings...