The social security contrarreform and the retreat of women’s social rights

Abstract

We held a discussion on the impacts of the Brazilian social security counter-reforms, emphasizing the setbacks of women's rights, from the Fernando Henrique Cardoso to Bolsonaro governments. These counter-reforms have been damaging the lives of the working class, especially women with regard to access to social security. In addition to representing great losses in rights, these counter-reforms are opposed to gender conditions, disregarding the fact that women have double or triple working hours, salary inequalities, responsibilities with the domestic sphere, perform unrecognized work etc. The social security rights of female workers over the years have been shattered as governments deny their rights. From a historical-critical perspective, this production took place through bibliographic and documentary review and research in order to identify how the counter-reforms of social security policy have affected women, particularly in the current ultraconservative government.