Recipients or mediators? Women, motherhood and public policies in Aregentina by Bulacios, Victoria

“…Through these women, the state provides resources and services that aim at assisting children in particular or the nuclear family as a whole, while the state provision of care in Argentina is built on the basis of care work carried out within homes. In any of the cases, women who are mothers are interpellated by the state as mediators of policies in the territories, positioning them as those in charge of processing and managing those policies. …”
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Time and Gender as Determinants of Poverty: An Analysis for the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina, in 2013 by Ramseyer, Franco

“…Among the paper’s results, it was found that women aged 18 or over spend more time than men on unpaid domestic and care work, while the opposite occurred with paid work. …”
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Deepening the inequality gaps by gender reasons: the impact of the pandemic on care, the labor market and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean by Batthyány, Karina, Sanchez, Agustina

“…The current context demonstrated the chain of inequities faced by women in the region, and it was possible to identify at least three dimensions where those inequalities were expressed: care, work and violence. This article studies the impact of the pandemic on these three dimensions, seeking to contribute to a reflection-for-action practice that allows us to rethink a post-pandemic world, where the gender perspective is not constituted as a conjunctural agenda but as a fundamental element in the transformation of our societies. …”
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