Women App Workers in Presidente Prudente and the impacts on menstrual health

• Grant number: 23/06533-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2024
• End date: December 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Thomaz Júnior
• Grantee: Esther Maria Pacheco
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The platformization of work carried out by food delivery app companies and the advance of neoliberalism based on policies and actions that withdraw the rights of the working class have imposed, on a growing and unprecedented scale, the systemic degradation of work. In addition, we understand that the sexual division of labor is also accentuated in the sphere of applications and this is expressed from the accumulation of working hours to the harassment that is imposed, especially on women, by preventing access to hygiene practices in the workplace. menstrual period. In this research project, we intend to apprehend, from the perspective of gender, how work on apps has a harmful impact on the menstrual health of delivery workers and contributes to the deepening of gender inequality and the precariousness of women's health.