Attitudes and Behaviors of Upper-Class Limean Women Regarding Domestic Work in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kogan L. · Apuntes (2023) · DOI: 10.21678/apuntes.95.1692

Resumen

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted changes in the behaviors and attitudes of the 17 upper-class Lima employers (married, in their 50s and 60s) that we interviewed, who opted to dispense with their domestic workers due to fear of infection. We argue that these employers adapted to the changes in a positive way by developing strategies to free themselves from the repetitive and hard work that domestic workers carried out before the pandemic. We found wide-ranging attitudes about domestic work as an occupational category, household chores, and those who perform them: the employers, their husbands, and the domestic workers.

Instituciones: Universidad del Pacífico