WOMEN IN TELEWORKING DURING THE PANDEMIC AND THE DISCOURSE OF LIBERAL FEMINISM

Abstract

This paper analyzes teleworking realized by women during the pandemic, in view of the discussion regarding the accumulation of productive and reproductive activities during this period in a more expressive way by them. This problem leads us to the analysis of the sexual division of labor according to different aspects of feminisms, especially Liberal Feminism, because it is based on this perspective that productive and reproductive work has been diffuse in the media. After collecting statistical data about the work of women during the pandemic and collecting the bibliography on the topic, it was possible to verify that the discourse of women regarding the accumulation of reproductive and productive activities during the pandemic masks a racial and exclusionary content fomented by Liberal Feminism in the context of neoliberal capitalism. By opposing this discourse with critical perspectives of Radical and Marxist Feminism, it was concluded that, for a part of women, the accumulation of social reproduction activities during the pandemic period, to a large extent, results from the dismissal of domestic workers, or, still, from the impossibility of them to work during this period due to the absence of public support policies during the health crisis.