Abstract

MACEDO, Shirley. Being a Working Woman and Mother During a COVID-19 Pandemic: Sewing Senses. Rev. NUFEN [online]. 2020, vol.12, n.2, pp. 187-204. ISSN 2175-2591.  http://dx.doi.org/10.26823/RevistadoNUFEN.vol12.nº02rex.33.

This report was written as a process of sewing a patchwork quilt, from weaving threads in search of meanings. The author, a researcher professor, started from her own experience in the context of social distancing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, in this year of 2020, and made a phenomenological analysis, clipping personal narrative excerpts (in italics), which referred to the meanings of this experience, interpreting them based on the literature on COVID-19, work, gender, women, motherhood and teaching. As a result, she realized that her quality of life was affected when she was unable to exercise her function in the workplace, and was called upon to assume the tasks of her role beyond the job, without leaving home. She concluded about the possibilities of coping with suffering, resignifying suffering in the pandemic by the working woman and mother: assuming and sharing suffering; opening up to self-fulfilling tasks; organizing in time.

Keywords : Woman; Job; Maternity; University; Teaching.

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