Work-family conflict as a gendered social determinant of parental and child mental health following the COVID-19 pandemic

Google translate: The COVID-19 pandemic and the health measures to contain it have had significant effects on the mental health of children and their parents. They also highlighted the gender differences that persist in work-life balance, despite years of social progress in the pursuit of equity in this regard. However, the unequal distribution of the difficulties of reconciling work and family can not only intervene in several manifestations of the physical and mental health of workers, but also in the physical and mental health of their children. The impact of work-family balance on the mental health of children in Quebec following the pandemic remains unexplored. Current data also do not make it possible to distinguish the gender stressors that emerge from the articulation of two major spheres of life: work and family. Work-family conflict (WFC) is bidirectional since work can interfere with family and family can interfere with work. Considering that 55% of parents of children aged 0 to 5 in Quebec experienced moderate or high work-family conflict before the COVID-19 pandemic, mitigating this conflict and the resulting inequalities is an important challenge for businesses and the various levels of government in Canada to promote the mental health of parents and their children.]