THE IMPACTS OF WORKING AT HOME ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF BRAZILIAN WOMEN DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

Brazil is one of the biggest epicentres of COVID-19 outbreak in the world, with many deaths and impacts in the economy, such as record unemployment rates and massive business closure in many industries. Due to this pandemic, about 7.3 million Brazilians worked from home (WFH) in November 2020 (IBGE, 2020), including women, that traditionally carry the most housework and care responsibilities in a home. To investigate the impacts of WFH on productivity of Brazilian women during the COVID-19 pandemic it was distributed a survey on Google Forms. The survey was attended by 31 respondents (100% cisgender women; Mage = 24-48 years), from several areas of expertise. To deepen the discussion it was made a systematic revision using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses - PRISMA (Galvão, Pansani, & Harrad, 2015) and 11 studies were analysed (6 reviews and 5 surveys). It was found that the pandemic has made gender gaps more apparent and that women are disproportionate impacted by its due to the traditional gender roles.