Mulheres negras, trabalhadoras domésticas: as diferentes formas de discriminação no sistema patriarcal capitalista

Abstract

This work proposes to analyze the main historical, social, economic and cultural determinations of the devaluation and discrimination of domestic work performed by black women in Brazil, highlighting the effects or reflections of forms of racial discrimination, gender oppression and social class inequalities. , considering the perspective of the capitalist patriarchal society. To this end, the investigation sought to bring a historical understanding of how this work arises in Brazilian society and how its devaluation is perpetuated, even when there is an achievement of legal recognition and significant advances in the regulation of the profession, even if in this century XXI. As a qualitative social research that seeks to delve deeper into certain social phenomena, the analysis was guided by the method of historical and dialectical materialism, based on bibliographical studies for contextualization and deepening of analytical categories and documental survey on the situation of domestic work in Brazil. The study showed that, even with legal advances in the recognition of the rights of domestic workers in the 21st century, the treatment of female domestic workers as second or third category professionals remains.