Academic production on the issue of violence against women in the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of social isolation

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic, a disease caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), has been widely reported in newspaper headlines and on social media, for taking countless lives daily. Causing chaos and the collapse of the health system in many countries, it has been one of the main challenges that has already resulted in thousands of deaths worldwide and huge impacts on the economy and education. The objective of the present study is to carry out a Systematic Literature Review (RSL), based on articles and scientific essays on the impacts of social isolation on the increase in domestic violence against women, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, in this first semester 2020. The research resulted in 10 articles and essays published since the beginning of the year 2020, collected on the basis of Google Scholar. It is evident that the pandemic, through social isolation, only made visible pre-existing issues such as: the increase in violence against women, the effects of social inequality and rights between genders. Women are even more burdened, as they work in domestic care, in the care of children, husbands, partners, family and community, and are also the majority in the front line in the health system. The hardest hit are poor, black, brown and disabled women. In addition, the researchers are harmed in relation to their academic production.