Abstract
The research analyses statements by mothers who are professors at several public universities in Brazil about the effects that social isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic had on their daily lives, work and production of knowledge in 2020. Mothers and fathers took on the care and pedagogical processes for their children, with unequal effects in terms of gender. The work overload for women affects not only their physical and psychological health, and their academic life, but the very production of knowledge by women on issues related to confronting problems faced by women.
Women; Maternity; the Academy; Covid-19; Sexual division of labor