CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

We intend to study the labor situation and the forms of organization of domestic workers in Paraguay to understand the reality of a significant margin of the population of women who work in this country, in a historically invisible task. A countercurrent approach that has been contemplated much more by research work from various NGOs and international organizations than by work from the academic field. In the more precise case of Paraguayan domestic workers, the greatest volume of studies was given in their insertion as migrant workers in Argentina, superimposing, at the same time, different vulnerabilities and building ethnic, economic, labor subalternities. Something that took the name of triple discrimination, multiple discrimination or triple victimization by combining the situation of displacement from the country of origin, the condition of women in a system of patriarchal domination and the employment relationship with an invisible and undervalued job. We intend to analyze the situation of paid domestic workers in Paraguay and its political context. By 2017, more than 17% of employed women in the country carried out their tasks within this branch. We will investigate the legal framework in which working women and domestic workers frame their work, from the dictatorship (1954-1989) to the present day, in order to understand what it consists of and how the specific demands they had at the beginning of their work were articulated. the transition to democracy to the present. Paraguayan women workers face legislation that restricts their labor rights, from an organizational structure that has a decades-long history of struggle. We will pay special attention to the construction of organizations that group their claims and dispute meanings around this activity, and we will dwell on the regional experience of consolidating claims for improvements in working conditions within the home.

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