Notes on women’s work in times of pandemic: responses and impasses

• Autor(a) principal: Melo, Hildete Pereira de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Mello, Soraia Carolina de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Estudos Feministas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/86994
• topic: trabalho das mulheres; cuidado; trabalho remunerado; trabalho não remunerado; economia feminista; trabajo de las mujeres; cuidado; trabajo remunerado; trabajo no remunerado; economía feminista; Women’s work; Care; Paid work; Unpaid work; Feminist economics

The pandemic inserts us, as of 2020, in an unprecedented health crisis, with severe effects on the economy and the labor market. Facing it, both individually and collectively, meant taking care of people. As has been extensively noted by feminist theorists, caregiving tasks are traditionallyassigned to women. They are, therefore, at the center of the responses to the health crisis, eventhough they are not the ones responsible for the major decisions concerning this crisis in Brazil. Thehealth crisis has also increased the inequalities of the labor market and the burden of work with the reproduction of life. This bitter reality will be the guiding thread of our reflections on the work thatguides our living in society.