O peso da dupla jornada: as alterações na rotina das mães-trabalhadoras da saúde pública durante o primeiro ano da pandemia de COVID19

Abstract

The current paper aims to identify the struggles, from an opposing patriarchal point of view, that working moms who were a part of the public healthcare system faced and to understand the challenges of balancing household chores, taking care of their children and their professional lives, during the first year of the pandemic in Brazil in 2020. The measures imposed by Brazilian and world authorities led to a new organizational structure in home and work-life, in which the need of isolation, resulted in families spending more time indoors thus increasing the domestic workload. This fell, mainly, on women, but in varying degrees, according to the race/skin color and social class they are inserted, reaffirming the idea that we live in a country with a patriarchal, classicist and racist foundation. The study was conducted with working moms that, regardless their professional ties or areas, worked at the Instituto Nacional da Saúde da Criança, da Mulher e do Adolescente Fernandes Figueira and had children from ages that ranged from 0 to 12 years old during that time. Account from workers were acquired through guided interviews and the use of the snowball sample method, which allowed an analysis of how much and how the pandemic affected the lives of those workers in the most diverse social and working conditions, besides inferring the need of a wider welfare system and one more sensitive to women’s issues.