PSICOPERSPECTIVAS, Vol. 21, No. 3, November 15, 2022. [1] Volume 21, Number 3, November 15, 2022 Free Subject Article DOI: 10.5027/psicoperspectivas-vol21-issue3-fulltext-2600 Gender and teleworking: The case of the workers of the Uruguay Crece Contigo program Género y teletrabajo: El caso de las trabajadoras del programa Uruguay Crece Contigo Karina Batthyány Depto. de Sociología, Fac. de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Uruguay (karina.batthyany@cienciassociales.edu.uy) Sharon Katzkowicz Depto. de Sociología, Fac. de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Uruguay (sharon.katzkowicz@cienciassociales.edu.uy) Sol Scavino Solari * Depto. de Sociología, Fac. de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Uruguay (sol.scavino@cienciassociales.edu.uy) *Corresponding author. Received: December 20, 2021 Accepted: October 28, 2022 Published: November 15, 2022 Recommended citation: Batthyány, K., Katzkowicz, S., & Scavino Solari, S. (2022). Género y teletrabajo: El caso de las trabajadoras del programa Uruguay Crece Contigo. Psicoperspectivas, 21(3). https://dx.doi.org/10.5027/psicoperspectivas-vol21-issue3-fulltext-2600 Background The health emergency caused by COVID-19 introduced collective and personal changes, proposing new scenarios for daily life, which was previously affected by different social inequalities, such as those of gender, class and race. These pre-existing inequalities were deepened. As of the confinement of the population to the domestic sphere, the vast majority of public care supports were put on hold, affecting one of the gravitational centers of inequality: care work. Care work is still widely feminized and Latin American States are beginning to consider its incorporation as a central part of public policies that seek to generate equal opportunities in choosing to care and accessing quality care. Uruguay is a pioneering country in the region in having a Care Law (Law No. 19,353). Given this panorama, the response of public policies around the challenges of care in a pandemic was different in the countries. In cases like Uruguay, the responses around care were null. After the closure of educational and care centers, teleworking in Uruguay has been a recommended and promoted modality. The Program Uruguay Crece Contigo (UCC) has as its main component in the territory the Family Accompaniment Program. Through local operators, accompanies pregnant women and children from 0 to 4 years of age in situations of social vulnerability. As of the COVID-19 pandemic, the interventions of the program were redefined, moving to a hybrid modality that combined presence in the territory and teleworking. Aims The following objectives are addressed: to analyze the working conditions during telework of UCC program workers who also do unpaid care work; to study the conditions given for the exercise of the rights to care, and to understand the mechanisms for the redistribution of care work between men and women during voluntary confinement. Method & procedures Based on the contact with the UCC Program management, an intentional sample of UCC program workers was selected and in-depth interviews were conducted and a content analysis was performed. The region of the country where they work, and living with young children were taken as categories for their differentiation. The interviews were conducted through the Zoom platform, from February to May 2020, to UCC supervisors, facilitators and outreach operators. Findings are presented around the following dimensions: the guarantees for paid work and care work and the distribution of care burden.