MATERNITIES, GENDER RELATIONS AND HISTORICAL INEQUALITIES: SOCIAL CONDITIONS, CULTURAL HERITAGES AND NORMATIVE MOTHERHOODS IN TIMES OF COVID-19 IN BRAZIL

• Autor(a) principal: Eiras Coelho Soares, Ana Carolina
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Magalhães, Sônia Maria de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Mosaico (Goiânia)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.pucgoias.edu.br/index.php/mosaico/article/view/13548
• topic: Relações de gênero; maternidade; boa mãe; produção acadêmico-científica; herança cultural; desigualdades sociais; Gender relations; motherhood; good mom; academic-scientific production; cultural inheritance; social inequalities.; Relaciones de género; maternidad; buena madre; producción académico-científica; herencia cultural; desigualdades sociales.

This article intends to present the partial results of a broad investigation on the impacts of COVID-19 on the life of the university community of the Federal University of Goiás, located in the Center-West of Brazil, whether they are teachers, administrative staff and students to provide background for actions that can discuss academically and promote debates on gender equity. Social isolation in the home environment has highlighted common problems in the domestic arena, where women, specially mothers, face the highest burden of unpaid care work and house management tasks. In addition to being primarily responsible for housework and caring for people in the home in general, there is also the mental workload of the emotional work, since women are most often responsible for planning and managing the home, all meals and daily life. The idea of the “good mom” also presents itself a problem in these scenario. We also add, at this current conjuncture, the alarming observation that the pandemic has been reducing the production of academic works signed by women scientists, because the part of the day dedicated to intellectual work only becomes possible after the endless journey of family and domestic work. The charge for scientific production, however, remains the same which further increases the abyss of gender inequalities between the academic production.