MNHQ here: calling all women in the UK, we'd love you to complete this survey (£100 voucher to be won)

[JustineBMumsnet]

Mumsnet HQ would like to find out a bit more about the experiences women have had under lockdown, and particularly how recent circumstances may have affected careers and the sharing of domestic responsibilities.

This survey is open to all female Mumsnet users (you don't have to have a child) in the UK.

Click here to complete the survey.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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Done - but seemed very biased toward the completer having a partner that works

Done ✔️

If this is about women's experiences, why were so many of the questions about husbands/partners?

And also, why the assumption that we're all working?

Done

Assumption seems to be partner that works and school age children

Done

I've done it, but "I make my kid do it" needs to be an option! 😁

Done, but no option to state that you're shielding - that's why H is doing all the shopping in this house.

Done but biased questions = junk data, I fear

Done. Some odd questions. Seems to assume younger children (my 15 yr old really doesn't need either of us to "do bath and bedtime"!) and working parents.

I can't complete the survey as there isn't an option to state that your partner WFH prior to Covid!!!

yeah, I had to approximate some answers too.
Mine has been a WAHD for ages.

Congratulations for having separated sex and gender.

I added "he works from home anyway" in the "other comments"; but there should have been an option for "shielding", I agree.

Mine not only already WFH but shock horror actually does "wifework" and parenting! He is the one benefitting from me being around more as WFH and no taxi duties so have begrudgingly done more of the housework etc!

There is indeed a bit of an assumption that the man is the main wage earner and spends less time with DC whereas that's not the case in our house. Also no option for self employed and usually wfh.

DH isn't even self employed his company policy is to WFH

It assumes you've been in more often - we've been out at work more often.

It's badly written.

My offspring currently do more housework than their parent as we’re working longer hours than they are, so none of the options applied.

If partner wfh prior to lockdown the survey wasn't possible to answer accurately.

I have done this 👍

Apologies I thought the survey had finished after the first set of questions mainly about partner’s work experiences. So in the comments section I asked a rather robust question as to why there were no questions about women’s experiences in the work place. Please Ignore

Done - I think a big problem is that it’s not always possible to indicate whether the effect has been positive or negative. Eg home working whilst homeschooling has affected my professional reputation: implicitly I think this infers it has been negatively impacted but in my case I think it has been positive and I couldn’t reflect that.

Agree this doesn’t well reflect situations where there is a sahp

Done...

Done but survey seems very biased and based on stereotypes. In our house DH does the bulk of housework/childcare etc and I go to work. I'm sure we aren't the only ones

Another one here frustrated by the biased nature / stereotyping in this survey, and the assumption that any children are small. It seems to be designed to get results to fit a hypothesis rather than being more open ended research - really infuriating.