Mulheres e cuidado: a divisão sexual do trabalho no cotidiano dos cuidados oncológicos

Abstract

The presente work is the result of research carried out for the conclusion of a lato sensu specialization in the oncology care, it aims to highlight the expressions and implications of the centrality of women’s work in health care. Based on a bibliographic research, we related the daily life of the socio-occupational space of oncology with the categories of care and the sexual and racial division of work. Ilness by cancer demands complex and long-term treatment, brings emotional and physical impacts on people’s living and working conditions. In the current conjuncture, They verify the retraction of social protection falls on families to the detriment of public policies. In this context, is the necessary to highlight who are the subjects who the provision of care, it is from this desire that this work aims to highlight the expressions and implications of the sexual division of labor in health that cross the lives of working women. Keeping this debate heated is a fundamental condition for us to create tools, strategies and tactics in the field of social work and beyond in the facing all the expressions that condition working women to this reality.