Los condicionamientos de los cuidados no remunerados y el rol social asignado a la maternidad en las trayectorias de las trabajadoras del cuidado en Mar del Plata

Care occupations have been gendered over time, since they involve tasks that are socially considered to be women's work, by extension of unpaid care, and naturalized as inherent to their feminine condition. From primary socialization, women are linked to domestic responsibilities and have care burdens from an early age. In this sense, the social role assigned to motherhood and the burdens of domestic work and unpaid care constitute a factor of intersectional inequality that determines women's life projects. This paper analyzes the impact of the social role associated with motherhood and the burdens of domestic work and unpaid care as factors of intersectional inequality in the work and training trajectories of care workers. To this end, in-depth interviews will be analyzed with care workers - domestic and community caregivers, nurses, early childhood education teachers and long-stay residence workers - from the city of Mar del Plata, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, carried out within the framework of the PICTO-Gender project "Hierarchization of paid care in Argentina. Transformations, continuities and proposals in the pandemic and post-pandemic".