The challenge of the female work and it’s relationship with the Law: between the care work, the emotional work and (re)production.
THE JOURNAL OF FACULDADE MINEIRA DE DIREITO
Dossier 1st Semester, 2021
The challenge of the female work and it’s relationship with the Law: between the care work, the emotional work and (re)production
The relationship between woman, care work, emotional work and (re)production is relationed to the development of the capitalism as a hegemonic system, that dominates social relationships, society organization and economic reality. Woman make their jobs in paradigmatic sectors of the capitalism, considering that this jobs are less valued and are recognized for being mostly precarious and subordinated.
Silvia Federici shows that these locations are linked to the sexual division of labor and to the construction of a patriarchal order that reigns over bodies within the perspective of capitalism.
Thus, when presenting these questions, it is noted that the articulation of these discourses is interconnected with institutional actions and daily interactions that are present in society, being legitimized through cis-sexist rules in Law, especially Labor Law. Therefore, it is seen, beforehand, that this discussion about the complexity of women's work, its valorization and the attribution of legal protection to these bodies was hidden within the legal field, which makes the clear option for the perpetuation of the sexual division of labor, for the legitimation of a subject of homogeneous law.
The product of statistics on qualification, by gender, reveals that the wage differences and inequalities between men and women in the labor market cannot be explained by their low qualifications, leading to the investigation of specific issues that affect only women in relation to men.
Still, the observation of statistics correlated to the participation of women with or without children in the labor market and the availability of public daycare centers, reinforces the fact that society and institutional powers still attribute to women the creation and care of children, mainly in cases of divorce or dissolution of conjugal societies, demonstrating that inequalities are justified by the fact that the working woman becomes a mother.
In addition to the mentioned inequality, they face a hierarchical bottleneck that excludes them, to a greater extent, from the highest jobs, explained by the glass ceiling theory.
However, these problems are not only in the last stage of the career, but in the entire trajectory of working life, which can be better explained by the labyrinth theory.
It is identified that the pandemic rekindles the discussion about the existence of double or triple work journeys attributed to women, the articulation of an “economy of care or affection” or of a “work of love”, which hides an emotional work, and makes women's work a labyrinth and its horizon a glass ceiling, showing that the discussion about the enormous differences between the realities and materialities of women is essential. Thus, it is increasingly perceived that the guarantee of productive paid work is a partial protection within contemporary society.
Therefore, the aim of this dossier is to present to writers for them to promote the debate on the interrelationships of female work, the care economy, survivor circuits, the connection with the environments of capitalist production, the links with the theory of the glass ceiling and the labyrinth, the sexual-racial division of labor and the diverse materialities of women within the work environment.
We invite you all to the submission of works.
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The articles for this dossier can be sent in Portuguese or in a foreign language by PhDs or by PhDs in co-authorship with PhD students.
The Journal receives only unpublished manuscripts that are not being evaluated by any other journal.
Articles must be sent exclusively online through the Journal's system.
All manuscripts must comply with the journal's editorial rules, otherwise they will be rejected for this reason alone. The reviews will follow the Qualis / CAPES double-blind peer review guidelines. For evaluation and publication purposes, editors may also consider articles on related topics submitted by the general flow, including those already approved.
The final date for submission is April 15, 2021.
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