Reconhecimento, redistribuição e equidade de gênero

Abstract

In this dissertation, I intend to analyze the different solutions to the dilemma of family labor, enchaining arguments in three distinct lines. During the last decades, as women move into the labor market, they become specially burdened by a sexual division of labor that assigns domestic labor and care work to women and paid occupations in the public sphere, which are also recognized as relevant contributions to society, to men. As they start working in the public sphere while keeping the same responsibility as before over domestic labor and care work, women start working double shifts.Several theoretical proposals have been developed with respect to this problem, intending to afford the social recognition that is due to this work and keeping a strong concern for women's struggle for emancipation. In this work, I reconstruct those arguments critically and analyze whether they constitute effective solutions to the problem that conciliate the struggle for recognition of family labor as a relevant contribution to society and the claims for women's emancipation. In the first chapter, I debate the proposals by equalitarian feminists, who defend the payment of this work. In the second chapter, I evaluate the opposing perspective using both feminist contributions and the ideas developed by André Gorz (1988) with respect to the topic. Lastly, I carry out an incursion in the relevant points brought up in the debate between Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth (2003). My intention is to extract from these contributions the pertinent elements to a reflection on gender equity through the issue of family work and the sexual division of labor.