Women facing economic recession and austery: an interpretation of the feminist economy

Abstract

Under the bias of the feminist economy, this study cast a look at the trajectory of women in the labor market in the face of the economic recession (2014-2015) and the ensuing set of austerity policies. The hypothesis surrounding this research is that men and women, for assuming different social roles, consequences of the consolidation of a social imaginary about what it is to be a man and a woman, are impacted differently. The feminist economy has been focusing on the attempt to interpret the different trajectories of these subjects in the productive sphere, questioning the universality and neutrality of conventional categories, and pointing to the idea that economic decisions are placed differently for social actors. For this, we will make use of the theoretical discussion of the critique of feminist economics to classical economic thought, and we will look at the official indicators of the IBGE to correlate with the process experienced in Brazil in the mentioned period.