Gender Inequality: The Impact of telecommuting on efficiency during The COVID-19 pandemic

Data Mapping in China

1.Who is the person who usually undertakes the housework?

Figure 1:According to the questionnaire, both men and women believe that women are the main domestic role in the home

2.Does working from home increase the time you or those around you spend doing housework?

Figure 2:According to the research, both men and women think increasing time on housework

3.When working from home, which of the following factors will affect your work efficiency?

Figure 3-4:Women find the burden of caring for their elders and children heavier than men do in telecommuting environments

4.How do you feel about working from home?

Figure 5:Both men and women said telecommuting negatively affected productivity, but women were twice as likely as men

Creative Representation

Word frequency on Chinese Social Media

（WordArt.com)

The creative representation we made is a collage with the chart and keywords in our pervious sentiment and content analysis. The sea below the collage is the sentiment and emotional response change over time from 2020 to 2022. All the positive, neutral, and negative response is increase which means there are more responses on the social media about work from home. The mask of the women is made by the world cloud of the keywords we collected from the media post. There is ‘work’, ‘childcare’, ‘pandemic’ and so on which means what women face in their real life. And the sea of data is filling in the whole collage which means we are drowning in the data nowadays.