Lugar de mulher é mesmo onde ela quiser? a percepção das auxiliares de cozinha de um shopping em Santa Maria (RS) sobre a relação entre jornada de trabalho e participação política

Abstract

The great advances that the feminist movement, as well as the women's movement, have made in recent years are noticeable. The insertion of women in politics, the judiciary, and in several spaces that used to be mainly composed of men, now gain voice and trace paths towards gender equality. However, in the case of working class women if on the one hand there are advances, on the other hand, controversies can be analyzed. The insertion of these women in the labor world, especially in the capitalist mode of production, did not free them from the other work they already performed for free: reproductive work, which doubles their working hours and intensifies oppressions. According to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, women who work in the public sphere dedicate about 73% more hours than men to domestic work, working a total of 10 more hours per week. This double workload takes up a good part of their time, leaving working women away from spaces of struggle, such as social movements, unions, parties and political organizations. These are spaces that walk towards women's emancipation. This study, considering this context, analyzes the perception and confrontations of the kitchen assistants in a shopping mall in Santa Maria (RS) city, regarding working hours, labor precariousness and political participation, considering the impacts that the high workload generates in the engagement with issues related to politics and emancipation.