ABSTRACT
Activists and academics have described the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as deeply gendered. According to their accounts, women lost their jobs in greater numbers, invested more hours of work, were over burdened with care duties, and found it more difficult to get back into the labor market. At the same time, governments have been pictured as willing and able to provide benefits much more in line with welfare state provisions, taking a clear break from neoliberal social policies that were the rule in many parts of the world at the moment. This chapter analyzes the case of Colombia to retell the story about the break of neoliberal-style policies and to unpack the diverse ways in which women were affected according to their class background.
