Nursing

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Public relations

Virology

Anthropology

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Outbreak

Child care

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Political science

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Sociology

Medicine

Ethnography

Disease

Pathology

Dialogues in Human Geography

Drawing on a virtual ethnography, we explore how the increase in remote working has created unequal domestic rearrangements of parenting duties with respect to gender relations during the COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. We also discuss the resources that mothers have mobilized to create a network of social support in the organization of care.

Mothers, childcare duties, and remote working under COVID-19 lockdown in Italy: Cultivating communities of care