Women working at university restaurants: Life and work conditions and gender-based violence

Abstract

This is an exploratory and descriptive study with a quantitative approach that aimed to understand the social production and reproduction processes of women working at university restaurants and the occurrence and the magnitude of gender-based violence committed a gainst them by their intimate partners . The data were collected through se mi-structured interviews. The analysis cate gories used were social production and reproduction, gender and gender-based violence. The intervie wees held a subordi nate social positio n during the productive a nd reproductive periods of their lives . Approxi matel y 70% reported havi ng experie nced gender-based violence fromanintimate partner (66% psycholo gical violence, 36.3% physical violence and 28.6% sexual violence). Most of the health problems resulting from violence were related to mental health. The results indicate that the situationre quires immediate interventions, mostly guided by the instrumentalization of these women and the support by the state and the university as appropriate to address violence.