WHO CARES? GENDER, UNPAID DOMESTIC AND CARE WORK IN BRAZIL DURING THE PANDEMIC

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https://doi.org/10.61999/abet.1676-4439.2023v22n1.61066

Abstract

Historically, societies present a sexual division of labor wherein women are responsible for domestic and care work. Adding to this, the Covid-19 pandemic has increased the time spent on these activities, as social distancing imposes the closure of workplaces, schools, restaurants and governmental services. This paper investigates if the extra amount of domestic and care work added to women’s burden or if this was an opportunity for men to take more responsibility. The analysis of 455 questionnaires answered during social distancing in Brazil shows that the domestic and care work increase was not evenly distributed in gender and race terms.

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Author Biographies

Ana Luiza Matos Oliveira, Associate Economic Affairs Officer at ECLAC Mexico

Ph.D. in Development Economics from University of Campinas, Brazil and Associate Economic Affairs Officer at ECLAC Mexico.

Lilian Nogueira Rolim

Lilian Rolim is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Campinas in Brazil. She holds a MA in Economics from the University of Campinas and a MA in International Macroeconomics and Finance from the University of Paris 13, in France. She is also co-coordinator of the Keynesian Economics Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).

Lygia Sabbag Fares, Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Economics Professor at John Jay College (City University of New York - CUNY). Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research specializing in Political Economy and Economics. Brazilian, Ph.D. in Development Economics: Social and Labor Economics, UNICAMP, and visiting scholar at York University, Toronto, Canada. Master of Arts in Labor Policies and Globalization at Kassel University, Germany. Certificate in Labor Economics (UNICAMP), and Bachelor of Arts in International Relations. Research focus: Capitalism and its particularities in underdeveloped countries, and labor and gender. Held positions as Director of the Department of Alternative Income at the Municipal Secretary’s office for Policies for Women for the City of São Paulo and Administrative Coordinator for the International Master’s Program of the Global Labour University at the University of Campinas, Brazil (UNICAMP).

Published

2023-05-30

How to Cite

Matos Oliveira, A. L., Nogueira Rolim, L. ., & Sabbag Fares, L. (2023). WHO CARES? GENDER, UNPAID DOMESTIC AND CARE WORK IN BRAZIL DURING THE PANDEMIC. Revista Da ABET, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.61999/abet.1676-4439.2023v22n1.61066