Work and family responsibilities in Brazil: reflections on labour rights/Trabalho e responsabilidades familiares no Brasil: reflexoes sobre os direitos do trabalho

Understand the relationship between work and family life under capitalism requires recognizing that these dimensions are in conflict, acquiring new contours with the massive entry of women in the labor market. The feminization of labor markets coincided with the transformation of the organization of work and production and increased those tensions. Besides changes in the productive sphere, socio-demographic changes have generated variations in the structure of families, creating a new relationship between demand and supply of care. The article analyzes the evolution of labor legislation and social security protection as motherhood and "reconciliation" between work and family, having as reference international standards of labor law and examines recent Brazilian legislative propositions. We consider that the production of this legislation reflects the possibilities and limits of the forms of state intervention on the Brazilian theme, from a gender perspective.