This project aims at examining how people balanced work and family during the lockout, intersecting their practices with an analysis of social inequalities, in particularly the ones due to class and gender, located in contrasting national contexts. Ultimately, we offer an analysis of the transformations brought about in terms of job retention and the pursuit of a professional career (especially for mothers), the organization of work and its articulation with family commitments, education and pedagogical continuity. To cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and control the spread of the virus, many governments around the world have opted for more or less flexible lockout measures. Confinement has thus forced couples with children to carry out in a single space several activities that usually take place in different places and at different times : professional work, domestic work and parental work have been carried out simultaneously by parents. In addition to these circumstances, these parents could no longer rely on the mediations involved in family arrangements. This situation questions two structuring activities of contemporary family organizations, namely employment and professional working conditions on the one hand, and parental work in education on the other hand. Along with the differentiated experiences of confinement according to social classes, our study jointly questions the way in which gendered orders are transformed in the couple andthe family, but also in employment and at work. This research will take place in three countries of the European space: France, Sweden and Switzerland. The choice of observation sites is justified by their highly differentiated management of the pandemic and by the fact that they are part of distinct regimes of social state (from the Swiss liberal or residual type to the Swedish social democracy through the French conservative corporatism). In each country, there will be twenty family monographs produced. We will target families composed of a couple and at least one child aged 0 to 12, variating according to local stratifications, social properties, employment positions and places of residence. In each family, we will conduct at least two recorded interviews with two family members about : the living environment, the trajectories of the family members (social, school, residential, professional, conjugal, etc.); family organization and work/family articulation before, during and after lockout (distribution of childcare and home care, family rhythms - school, professional, etc.); employment and work conditions, sociability and leisure practices of family members; school and extra-curricular achievements during confinement; family relationships and practices (sociability, occupations, etc.). The collection of materials will begin in September 2020, for a period of three months. We would like to recruit families between June and July, before any holidays, in order to ensure that the monographs will start in September. This rapid implementation of the protocol will allow us to collect the experiences of lockout and ils aftermaths as close as possible to their experiences, before the memories lose their sharpness. The results obtained will show the difficulties encountered by the families and will identify concrete actions in the event of a new pandemic. They may help in their decisions partners interested in questions of work organization and working conditions, dedicated to school and wider family issues, or mobilized by gender equality issues.