Os impactos da desigualdade de gênero nas relações familiares

Abstract

The study aims to analyze how gender inequality presents itself in the family context. It is a bibliographical research of a qualitative nature, carried out from the reading of scientific articles produced in the period from 2005 to 2020 in the Textos & Contextos magazine. Articles that have as their central theme: gender, family and intra-family violence were chosen. The results of the study show that the female gender is assigned the role of caring for the family, with motherhood being considered as na attribute of all women, which is part of an accumulation of domestic tasks that overload them. It was evident that women responsible for single-parent families experience this overload of tasks more intensely because, in addition to taking care of the family, they also need to work outside the home. On the other hand, women responsible for the financial support of the families have greater autonomy and freedom in decisions regarding their children's education and also in relation to their own lives. In addition, the domestication of women was also identified as a socially constructed process that unfolds in situations of intra-family violence against women.