Por uma nova economia dos cuidados e reformulação dos papéis sociais de gênero em tempos de crise

Abstract

This essay seeks to understand specificities that structure and reproduce certain economic processes of exploitation and marginalization of women in contemporary society. The focus is to analyze the conditions of income generation, the difficulties of entering the Brazilian labor market and the unequal distribution of care activities that cross female bodies. As well, it aims to stimulate the debate about the importance of formulating and implementing active public policies, especially in times of crisis and in the field of care, through the analysis of the role played by Emergency Aid (EA) during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The method used in the research is based, in the first part, on bibliographic research of Feminist Economics. In the second, referring to the quantitative part, in the descriptive analysis of the PNAD - COVID19 data, aided by results found in studies and relevant articles on this topic. This, in order to verify if the magnitude of the impacts felt in the pandemic varied according to gender, reaching women disproportionately, and if the granting of the benefit in this first year was able to mitigate the growth of social inequalities considering the intersectionality between gender, race and class.