Özet:

Pandemics create various changes in the social, economic, political and psychological structure of the societies in which they were born. As an important component of the social dimension of the Covid-19 outbreak, gender has largely shaped the social impact of the crisis. This situation is determined by the results of this effect, from the incidence of diseases and deaths, to the gender of health workers and other frontline workers, from the distribution of work in the home to the rates of domestic violence. Examining the gender dimension of the Covid-19 epidemic and its effects on gender stands as an important research area for social scientists. This study aims to understand the change created by the experience of being at home and working from home during the epidemic as a crisis and opportunity for change in masculine roles. In the study, which was designed as a qualitative research, in-depth interviews were conducted with 20 male participants who lived in different cities, had different education, age and socio-economic status, were selected with snowball sampling, and experienced being at home/working from home for different periods during the epidemic, and the data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. . The men taht we conducted our interviews with stated that they participated more in housework and childcare during this process, and that they experienced changes in the division of labor and role distribution based on gender in the home. Even if it is premature to characterize the extent of this change as a transformation in dominant masculinity values, after Covid-19, flexible working from home will become permanent for both men and women, the new position of the home as a work place and this situation as a "crisis" and change opportunity. It was thought that it would be important to understand the breakage that would be caused by.

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