One of the key issues being highlighted in this health and social crisis is "that care is central to our lives," explains Professor Obiol. "We have been able to put off everything except caring for the people who need it," she points out.

In fact, there is a paradox surrounding care-taking that has negative consequences for women. According to Sandra Obiol, for years many more efforts have been made to disguise that we were caring or that we needed to be cared for than not to care and with this 'we have cornered women, the main, if not only, responsible for this care in the private sphere where there is no visibility or social recognition, making their lives and ours much more vulnerable’.

In this sense, for the professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences, one of the main consequences of this crisis is that women will end up exhausted because they have already entered this crisis very tired. Especially if they are working class, migrants and/or single-parent families,' she concludes.

Sandra Obiol considers that a gender perspective is needed to analyze and overcome the crisis of COVID-19 and this implies, among other things, to ''consider caregiving as a collective responsibility''.

Care and real needs must occupy an important place in our interests and concerns because 'we cannot afford to end up with one of the most unequal of which we were part', she concludes.

Sandra Obiol is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology and her lines of research are gender, family, work and education, all related to the Equality Unit.

In this sense, one of the latest articles published with Alícia Villar, "Crazy abour science. The difficulty of mixing accountability and caregiving," emphasized care, gender equality and inequalities in the environment of scientific production and the article "Single-parent families and paid work : an analysis of the País Valencià,” together with Rafael Castelló and Immaculada Verdeguer on another of the topics on which she continues to do research, single-parent families.