Desigualdade de gênero, teletrabalho e pandemia do covid-19

Abstract

The present paper attempted to understand the situation of gender inequality that has been highlighted in the COVID-19 pandemic scenario, specifically through the use of telecommuting to do labor. Therefore, the institution of patriarchy and how it‘s been used as one of the elements that had lifted the sexual division of labor in its shape, and the feminist movement as one way to resist the male domination paradigms were analised. Then, the reflexes of the pandemic in the labor world were studied, showing the increase of the laboral deregulation in face of the crisis in it multiple aspects. Lastly, it was identified the deepening of gender inequality during the pandemic, added to the violation of the fundamental right of conciliation between the private life and the labor life in the female perspective, justifying the aplicability of the disparate impact doctrine to the gender inequality combat. Indeed, through a bibliographic revision and analisis of statistics data provided by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estátistica and other scientific researches, it was proven the women‘s overload due to housework activities and labor related work has increased during the sanitary crisis context caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.