Women: domestic work, waste and ecological survival
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https://doi.org/10.33871/nupem.2025.17.42.10570Keywords:
Women, households, domestic work, national waste strategy, ecologyAbstract
The essay aims to address the relationship between domestic work, women, ecology, and waste. This objective is developed through a case study that evaluates the National Waste Strategy presented by the Ministry of the Environment of the Government of Chile in 2020, with the purpose of analyzing the participation of families and Brazilian women engaged in recycling in the government’s ecological strategies. The thesis is based on two statements: women are responsible for the ecological survival that sustains the life and future of society and, due to the patriarchal model, the classification of waste within the recycling process affects women unequally and can be considered unpaid domestic work. The results indicate that Chile’s National Waste Strategy places the responsibility on families and women for waste reduction.
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