“The tasks that are women´s, now I do too”. Masculinities and cares in times of pandemic

Abstract

Framed in the field of investigation of masculinities, this article presents, from a gender perspective, the analysis of the results arising from the investigation about the changes produced in the daily lives of self-perceived males during the application of preventive isolation measures determined by the national government in the transit of the pandemic caused by Covid-19.

Based on the application of a non-probabilistic survey, this study analyzes the responses of 1.006 males residents from all over the country, comprised in an age range that oscillates between 18 and 79 years. The information collection was carried out through a questionnaire composed of open and closed questions focused on aspects related to health, work, daily life, intrafamily relationships, sexual practices and the assessment of the advantages and disadvantages that staying in their homes has caused them.

From Social Work we understand as a need to involve self-perceived males as such in public debate in order to problematize and promote the assumption of shared care roles between femininity, masculinities and dissidents, an issue on which high levels of intergender inequality are observed.