Social policies aimed at families with female heads: A study of literature in Brazil and Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Mathis, Adriana de Azevedo
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Braga, Cilene Sebastiana da Conceição, Amaro, Maria Inês
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Textos & contextos (Porto Alegre)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/fass/article/view/36997
• topic: Social Policies; Family; Head of family; Políticas Sociais; Família; Chefia familiar

The article presents part of the results of an investigation related to the international cooperation project, involving Brazil and Portugal, referring to the differences and similarities between family policies to reconcile professional work and family work directed at families with female heads. From a bibliographic survey, a systematic review of the literature in the area, points of approximation and distance between the authors studied are identified, such as: the discussion of the implementation of neoliberal restrictive policies and inequalities between men and women; the debate on the centrality of the family in social policies in the two countries under analysis; the different conceptions of families and the new family arrangements that blend with the old patriarchal family pattern and, finally, it addresses the difficulties of the female head of household in reconciling training, professional work and family work in the current economic context.