The general objective of the project is to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on care needs in households, and the consequences that this entails in gender inequalities and in the social reorganization of care work in the Spanish State, making special emphasis on the role of community support and solidarity networks.
Among the specific objectives we find:
– Analyze the impact of COVID-19 on care needs in homes and the consequences that this entails in the social organization of care work in Spain as a whole.
– Deepen the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on social inequalities, especially gender inequalities as a result of the (re)organization of care processes. Based on the idea that gender must be understood in its complexity and in interconnection with other conditions of identification and social discrimination according to a multidimensional vector (income, class, labor market situation, migratory situation, ethnicity, modalities family and household characteristics); as well as in the dimensions of dependency and special care needs.
– explore the articulation of care strategies in relation to networks and social interactions of support and solidarity; and analyze the response of society based on civic and community support networks. Y
– Provide knowledge, tools and proposals to develop participatory care policies for and from the various social welfare institutions: families, public administrations, the third sector/community, and business organizations.