One in three female workers in private homes lost their jobs between the first quarters of 2020 and 2021, which generated more than 350,000 unemployed women, according to a report prepared by the Directorate of Economy, Equality and Gender.
At the beginning of 2020, the main economic activity was work in private homes with 16.7% of active workers.
Nevertheless, between the first quarters of the year 2020 and 2021, More than 350,000 workers in private homes lost their jobs.in the midst of the first and second waves of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Until the pandemic, work in private homes employed 1.2 million women (16.7% of employed workers). In the 2nd quarter of 2020, more than 400 thousand workers lost their jobs and, in the 4th quarter of 2021, 280,000 had not recovered it,” the document said.
This situation, according to the official agency, “modified the structure of women’s employment.”
The data recorded by the Directorate of Economy, Equality and Gender does not recognize domestic work as an index of “activity”Therefore, the report incorporates the category “housewife”, recognizing gender roles and existing economic inequalities.
In this sense, the document underlines the importance of the work of this sector not only in the Argentine economy but also for other labor activities.
“Their work has repercussions on the use of other people’s time, especially women, who by reducing domestic and care work in the home increase their chances of education, insertion and permanence in the labor market,” the analysis said.
On the other hand, The study pointed out that the most affected within the sector were informal workers: of a total of 927 thousand workers, 624 thousand of them lost their jobs in that period, representing a drop of 33%.
Also, the report explained that this category has a higher level of informality and lower wages in the country’s economy.
“78.1% of its workers did not have a retirement discount as of the fourth quarter of 2021, also being the most feminized with 98.4%,” the report stressed.
