A inserção feminina no mundo do trabalho brasileiro em tempos de crise: avanços e retrocessos à luz da teoria econômica feminista

Abstract

This research intends to analyze the female insertion in the Brazilian work world during the period of economic crisis between 2015 and 2020. Despite the countless advances provided by feminist waves over the last centuries, women continue to assume subordinate positions in the labor market, earning lower income, being part of the most precarious workplaces and contractual modalities, in addition to mainly exercising functions with gender stereotypes and reconciling work and domestic work. From the perspective of feminist economic theory, this phenomenon persists due to the sexual division of labor, which hierarchizes the different roles attributed to men and women based on the public-private dichotomy. Data from the female occupational reality in contemporary Brazil corroborate this hypothesis, demonstrating that, although women have greater employability in times of crisis, it occurs from work arrangements outside the labor legislation and the structure of the social security system. This reality requires appropriate responses from the government, based on gender-sensitive public policies