This paper draws on data from Work and Care During COVID-19, an online survey of Australians during pandemic lockdown in May 2020 (n = 2,722). It focuses on how subsamples of lesbian, gay, and bisexual mothers and fathers in couples (n = 280) and single mothers (n = 480) subjectively experienced unpaid work and care during lockdown compared with heterosexual mothers and fathers in couples, and with partnered mothers, respectively. During the pandemic, nonheterosexual fathers’ subjective reports were less negative than those of their heterosexual counterparts, but differences between heterosexual and lesbian/bisexual mothers were more mixed. Unlike their partnered counterparts, more single mothers reported feeling satisfied than before with their balance of paid and unpaid work and how they spent their time overall during the pandemic, perhaps because they avoided partnership conflicts and particularly benefited from relaxed commuting and child care deadlines.

本文利用了COVID-19期间工作和护理中的数据，该数据是2020年5月大流行封锁期间对澳大利亚人的在线调查（n = 2,722）。它着重研究了夫妻（n = 280）和单身母亲（n = 480）的女同性恋，男同性恋和双性恋母亲和父亲的子样本与锁定的异性恋母亲和父亲相比，在锁定期间主观地体验了无偿工作和照料的情况。母亲分别。在大流行期间，非异性恋父亲的主观报告比异性恋父亲的主观报告要少，但是异性恋母亲和女同性恋/双性恋母亲之间的差异更为混杂。与伴侣的伴侣不同，有更多的单身母亲报告说他们对有偿和无偿工作的平衡以及在大流行期间如何度过的全部时间感到满意，