Violence Against Women and Covid-19: Reflecting on the Patriarchate Pandemic and the Main Points of Law 14.022 / 20

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the increase in violence against women in times of pandemic. Bearing in mind that society configures the woman's body to be a cultural container, patriarchal practices developed even more when they were circumscribed in the domestic environment. Women are subordinated to fear within four walls, thus demonstrating that current legislation is being insufficient to stop the atrocities committed against women. In this standard, this is a exploratory research, for it seeks to ascertain how the bills aim to combat violence against women and, what are the main impacts on society with the approval of these laws. Although it is not possible to foresee the end of these two phenomena that violate women's right to life, one of a biological nature (COVID-19) and another of a cultural nature (violence against women), it is concluded that there is a visible need to change perceptions psychosocial aspects of what it means to be a man and a woman, even if the causes for the prolongation of social distance are solved.